- July 24, 2013The Sciences
Quantum Physics Leads to Perfect Mirror
- Researchers created a surface that gives photons no option within the rules of quantum mechanics but to bounce back off. Wayt Gibbs reports
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- February 1, 2008Mind & Brain
The Character Code
- Researchers have found a gene that influences our ability to cope with stress and to bounce back from the misfortunes of life
- Turhan Canli
- February/March 2008
- 10.1038/scientificamericanmind0208-52
- September 30, 2014Behavior
Steven Pinker's Sense of Style
- The Harvard psychologist offers a writing guide based on how the mind works
- Gareth Cook
- November 1, 2007Technology
SimCity Societies: A Greener Version of the Urban Jungle
- The much-anticipated game update will address how cities are built with the environment in mind
- Larry Greenemeier
- November 17, 2009Mind & Brain
Your Brain on Books
- Neuroscientist Stanislas Dehaene explains his quest to understand how the mind makes sense of written language
- Stanislas Dehaene
- December 16, 2019
العلاج بـ«التحفيز الكهربائي» يختلف من شخص إلى آخر
- الاعتماد على خرائط الدماغ الخاصة بكل مريض يمكنه أن يحسِّن علاج مرضى الشلل الرعاش والحالات العصبية الأخرى...
- Dina Darwich
- April 13, 2017Space & Physics
Energetic 2-Ball Bounces
- A bouncing project from Science Buddies
- Science Buddies and Sabine De Brabandere
- November 1, 2012The Sciences
Four Fallacies of Pop Evolutionary Psychology
- Some evolutionary psychologists have trumpeted claims about how the human mind evolved that other scholars take issue with. Here is how the evidence shapes up
- Evolution: What Makes Us Human
- 10.1038/scientificamericanhuman1112-44
- March 1, 2010Mind & Brain
The Brain and the Written Word
- A cognitive neuroscientist explains his quest to understand how reading works in the mind—and how the brain is changed by education and culture
- Gareth Cook
- March / April 2010
- 10.1038/scientificamericanmind0310-62
- March 1, 1990Mind & Brain
Unconscious Mental Functioning
- Rigorous, quantitative studies of psychotherapy are challenging certain widely held views of how the unconscious mind works and how patients in therapy make progress
- Joseph Weiss
- Scientific American Volume 262, Issue 3
- 10.1038/scientificamerican0390-103
- September 1, 2006Mind & Brain
Vision: A Window into Consciousness
- In their search for the mind, scientists are focusing on visual perception--how we interpret what we see
- Nikos K. Logothetis
- Secrets of the Senses
- 10.1038/scientificamerican0906-4sp
- April 1, 2002Mind & Brain
Vision: A Window on Consciousness
- In Their Search for the Mind, Scientists are Focusing on Visual Perception-How we Interpret what we See
- Nikos K. Logothetis
- The Hidden Mind
- 10.1038/scientificamerican0402-18sp
- January 1, 2004Mind & Brain
The Quest to Find Consciousness
- By studying the brain's physical processes, scientists are seeking clues about how the subjective inner life of the mind arises
- Gerard Roth
- January 2004
- 10.1038/scientificamericanmind0104-32
- January 1, 1923Space & Physics
The Heavens in January, 1923
- How the Astronomer's Work Carries Him from Star to Electron, and Back Again
- Henry Norris Russell
- Scientific American Volume 128, Issue 1
- 10.1038/scientificamerican0123-50
- April 1, 1991The Sciences
Hard Words
- How deeply can language be traced? Radical linguists look back to the Stone Age. Traditionalists disagree.
- Philip E. Ross
- Scientific American Volume 264, Issue 4
- 10.1038/scientificamerican0491-138
- November 1, 1993The Sciences
Sausage Factory
- How Congress passes the pork to Back-Home U.
- Tim Beardsley
- November 1993
- 10.1038/scientificamerican1193-23a
- May 1, 2014The Sciences
Surface Science: Where Does a Basketball Bounce Best?
- A physics problem from Science Buddies
- Science Buddies
- November 6, 2014Mind & Brain
10 Big Ideas in 10 Years of Brain Science
- Scientific American MIND reflects on the major discoveries of the past decade that have transformed how we think about the brain
- Julia Calderone
- June 28, 1919The Sciences
Lake Michigan's Encroachment on its Coast
- How the Currents are Stealing Land from the Western and the Giving it Back at the Southern Extremity
- Hu Maxwell
- Scientific American Volume 120, Issue 26
- 10.1038/scientificamerican06281919-687
- April 15, 2013Technology
Aftermath of Boston Marathon Bombing: How Do Terrorists Use Improvised Explosive Devices?
- Two IEDs were detonated near the race’s finish line. An expert explains how they work and how they can lead investigators back to the bomb-makers
- Larry Greenemeier