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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

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

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