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Are You Afraid of Happiness [Quiz]

A fear of happiness often coexists with other mental disorders

Finding the Good in the Bad: A Profile of Rita Levi-Montalcini

The Italian researcher faced prejudice and adversity as a woman and as a Jew, but went on to elucidate a growth factor essential to the survival of nerve cells

How Neuroscientists Observe Brains Watching Movies

Functional MRI can peer inside your brain and watch you watching a YouTube clip

Beauty in a Brain Tumor?

Psychopathy's Bright Side: Kevin Dutton on the Benefits of Being a Bit Psychopathic, Part 2

Kevin Dutton is a psychologist at the University of Oxford. He talks about his latest book, The W isdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us about Success...

Psychopathy's Bright Side: Kevin Dutton on the Benefits of Being a Bit Psychopathic, Part 1

Kevin Dutton is a psychologist at the University of Oxford. He talks about his latest book, The W isdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us about Success...

Neural Pointillism: Lighting Up the Brain in Psychedelic Relief [Slide Show]

Genetic engineering enables individual brain cells of research animals to ignite in brilliant color to trace the elaborate connections of a nervous system

Neural Pointillism: Lighting Up the Brain in Psychedelic Relief [Slide Show]

Genetic engineering enables individual brain cells of research animals to ignite in brilliant color to trace the elaborate connections of a nervous system

Monkey Brain Area Keeps Count of Kindnesses

The primates have an altruistic 'tally chart' that keeps track of social rewards and gifts

The Most Popular Scientific American Stories of 2012

Here are the stories you clicked on the most on our site

January 2013 Briefing Memo

Music's Effects on the Mind Remain Mysterious

Creativity is important—without it, human society cannot survive—yet finding an appropriate method to quantify imagination has scientists stumped

The Neuroscience Lessons of Freestyle Rap

What brain scans of rap artists reveal about creativity—and what they do not

We Listen with Our Hands, Too

Hearing action words can cause subtle motor responses--but context is key. Daisy Yuhas reports

Mind Theorist Finds the Keys to Conflict Resolution in Neuroscience

Knowledge of how the brain intuits what someone else is thinking helps Rebecca Saxe devise possible solutions to seemingly intractable political and social conflicts

Self-Awareness with a Simple Brain

Case studies suggest that some forms of consciousness may not require an intact cerebrum

Scientists Discover Children’s Cells Living in Mothers’ Brains

The connection between mother and child is ever deeper than thought

Parrots Mimic Other Specific Parrots

Parrots appear to purposely imitate the calls of other individual parrots from which they wish to get a response. Karen Hopkin reports

Smart Helmets Could Flag Players at Trauma Risk

Force sensors in headgear could signal whether a hit is strong enough to cause concern should the player receive a second serious blow. Larry Greenemeier reports

People Use Same Brain Regions to Read Alphabetic and Logographic Languages

Whether reading Chinese characters or French words written alphabetically, the same areas light up in our brains, an insight that could inform learning strategies for literacy