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June 7, 2017Evolution
How Quarks Turned into Cultures: Big-picture biologist Tyler Volk talks about his book on “How We Came to Be”; John Horgan

January 1, 1993Evolution
Madagascar's Lemurs: These primates can tell us a great deal about our own evolutionary past. But many species are already extinct, and the habitats of those that remain are shrinking fast; Ian Tattersall; January 1993; 10.1038/scientificamerican0193-110

May 15, 2012Biology
The Football Concussion Crisis: NFL Hall of Famer Harry Carson joins former NBC anchor Stone Phillips and pathologist Bennet Omalu for a discussion of chronic traumatic encephalopathy among football players. Recorded May 12th at the Ensemblestudiotheatre.org, site of the new play Headstrong about the brain injury issue...; Steve Mirsky

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

May 18, 2012Environment
The Scienceblogging Weekly (May 18, 2012): Blog of the Week:For the greatest portion of the history of biology, every organism was a "model organism". One would pick a problem and then choose which organism would be most suited for answering those particular questions...; Bora Zivkovic

November 29, 1902The Sciences
Science and Literature: Scientific American Supplements Volume 54, Issue 1404supp; 10.1038/scientificamerican11291902-22505csupp

July 28, 2010Mind & Brain
Arguing with Non-Skeptics, Part 2 of 2: A panel discussion on arguing with non-skeptics at the recent Northeast Conference on Science and Skepticism in New York City featured James Randi, George Hrab, D. J. Grothe and podcast host Steve Mirsky...; Steve Mirsky

January 1, 2004Mind & Brain
Humbled by History: Over the centuries, many "proven" ideas about the brain were later found lacking, a lesson worth remembering today; Robert-Benjamin Illing; January 2004; 10.1038/scientificamericanmind0104-86

November 1, 1999Mind & 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; November 1999; 10.1038/scientificamerican1199-68

July 26, 2012
Drinking from a firehose: can research into the human mind help with medical school memorization?: I’ve come across many analogies that try to convey the amount of memorization required in medical school. The most popular is drinking from a firehose.; Ilana Yurkiewicz

April 1, 1955The Sciences
Man Viewed as a Machine: "Muscle" and "brain" machines do much of his daily work. Now he conceives a machine that will reproduce itself. This once again brings up the question of whether man himself is only a machine...; John G. Kemeny; Scientific American Volume 192, Issue 4; 10.1038/scientificamerican0455-58

March 3, 2015Mind & Brain
What is Déjà Vu?: Déjà vu describes the strange experience of a situation feeling much more familiar than it should. Young people experience déjà vu the most.; Julia C. Teale and Akira R. O'Connor

October 9, 2017Mental Health
Unmasking Anxiety in Autism: Anxiety can assume unusual forms—turning uncertainty, or even a striped couch, into a constant worry; Jessica Wright and Spectrum

September 1, 2015Neuroscience
Out of Sync: How Modern Lifestyles Scramble the Body's Rhythms: Digital devices and 24/7 lifestyles are messing with our body's natural rhythms, threatening our health. What does it take to keep our inner clock ticking?; Emily Laber-Warren; Scientific American Mind Volume 26, Issue 5; 10.1038/scientificamericanmind0915-30; Originally published as "Out of Sync" in Scientific American Mind Volume 26, Issue 5

January 30, 1858The Sciences
Correspondents - January 30, 1858: Scientific American Volume 13, Issue 21; 10.1038/scientificamerican01301858-167; Originally published as "Correspondents" in Scientific American Volume 13, Issue 21

May 1, 1974Mind & Brain
Visual Pathways in Albinos: A genetic abnormality in Siamese cats, white tigers and other albino mammals provides a natural experiment for investigating how the brain acquires an orderly picture of the outside world...; R. W. Guillery; Scientific American Volume 230, Issue 5; 10.1038/scientificamerican0574-44

January 1, 2009Environment
Testing Natural Selection with Genetics: Biologists working with the most sophisticated genetic tools are demonstrating that natural selection plays a greater role in the evolution of genes than even most evolutionists had thought...; H. Allen Orr; January 2009; 10.1038/scientificamerican0109-44

July 1, 2015Mind & Brain
Do Brain Training Games Work?: Despite the hype, when science meets commerce, objectivity is often the loser; Simon Makin; Scientific American Mind Volume 26, Issue 4; 10.1038/scientificamericanmind0715-64; Originally published as "Can You Train Your Brain?" in Scientific American Mind Volume 26, Issue 4

June 1, 2008Mind & Brain
The Neurobiology of Trust: Our inclination to trust a stranger stems in large part from exposure to a small molecule known for an entirely different task: inducing labor; Paul J. Zak; June 2008; 10.1038/scientificamerican0608-88

May 1, 2000Environment
Interview with Roderick MacKinnon: The winner of last year's Lasker Award discusses some of Mother Nature's finest architecture; Julia Karow

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