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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
      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
      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
      April 13, 2017Space & Physics

      Energetic 2-Ball Bounces

      A bouncing project from Science Buddies
      Science Buddies and Sabine De Brabandere
      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
      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, 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
      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
      April 1, 2002Mind & Brain

      The Mind-Body Interaction in Disease

      The brain and the immune system continuously signal each other, often along the same pathways, which may explain how state of mind influences health
      Esther M. Sternberg and Philip W. Gold
      The Hidden Mind
      10.1038/scientificamerican0402-82sp
      September 1, 2009Mind & Brain

      The Origin of the Mind

      The first step in figuring out how the human mind arose is determining what distinguishes our mental processes from those of other creatures
      Marc Hauser
      September 2009
      10.1038/scientificamerican0909-44
      January 1, 2009Mind & Brain

      Evolution of the Mind: 4 Fallacies of Psychology

      Some evolutionary psychologists have made widely popularized claims about how the human mind evolved, but other scholars argue that the grand claims lack solid evidence
      David J. Buller
      January 2009
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