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June 10, 2011The Sciences
The Bezos Scholars Program at the World Science Festival: The World Science Festival is a place where one goes to see the giants of science, many of whom are household names (at least in scientifically inclined households) like E.; Bora Zivkovic and Perrin Ireland

February 27, 2012Mind & Brain
The Age of Connectome: Q&A with Sebastian Seung: In 1949, a Canadian psychologist named Donald Hebb penned the following revolutionary words in his pioneering work, The Organization of Behavior : "Let us assume that the persistence or repetition of a reverberatory activity (or 'trace') tends to induce lasting cellular changes that add to its stability.....; Jennifer Ouellette

February 14, 2015Mind & Brain
How To Make The Most Of Your Valentine’s Day!: Whether you’re single or partnered up this Valentine’s Day, psychology has all sorts of tips for you on how to find your next great love or improve your existing relationship with the one you’ve got...; Melanie Tannenbaum

June 23, 2013But Not Simpler
Nerds and Words: Week 25: I have dug through the Internet this week and uncovered all this geeky goodness. You can find the thousands of links from previous weeks here.; Kyle Hill

May 18, 2010Mind & Brain
Fact or Fiction: Fathers Can Get Postpartum Depression: Mothers are at higher risk for depression during and after pregnancy--and many continue to have depressive symptoms even as children grow up. But are fathers, whose bodies do not go through all of the same biological changes, also at risk for prenatal and postpartum depression?...; Katherine Harmon

September 1, 2016Cognition
Learning When No One Is Watching: We gain most of our knowledge without any instruction. Now science is unraveling how our brain pulls off this everyday miracle; R. Douglas Fields; Scientific American Mind Volume 27, Issue 5; 10.1038/scientificamericanmind0916-56

May 9, 2015Cocktail Party Physics
Physics Week in Review: May 9, 2015: It’s back, baby! The Large Hadron Collider sees its first low-energy collisions after restarting. A government laboratory found a way to listen to recordings on fragile wax cylinders inside dolls made by Thomas Edison in 1890...; Jennifer Ouellette

January 23, 2021Policy
Premature Freak-Outs about Techno-Enhancement: Debates about whether to “improve” our mind and body often exaggerate the feasibility of doing so; John Horgan | Opinion

October 21, 1899
The Progress of Science and its Results: Michael Foster

March 16, 2012Evolution
Raising Darwin's Consciousness: An Interview with Sarah Blaffer Hrdy on Mother Nature: Click here for Part Two: Sarah Blaffer Hrdy on the Evolutionary Lessons of MotherhoodIn my cover article out this week in Times Higher Education I featured the life and work of famed primatologist and evolutionary theorist Sarah Blaffer Hrdy...; Eric Michael Johnson

January 13, 2017Culture
What Is Philosophy's Point?, Part 2--Maybe It's a Martial Art: Philosophers sometimes seem more concerned with winning than wisdom; John Horgan

March 1, 2012Health
Search for Faster, Better Antidepressants Makes Progress: Existing antidepressants leave a lot to be desired. They can take weeks to start working, and they fail many people. Researchers are scouting for better options; Robin Marantz Henig; Scientific American Volume 306, Issue 3

June 22, 2012Environment
The Scienceblogging Weekly (June 22nd, 2012): Blog of the Week:Like clockwork, almost every day for more than two years, Tommy Leung and Susan Perkins bring you Parasite of the Day.; Bora Zivkovic

July 29, 2010
How Can You Control Your Dreams?: The ability to manipulate our dream worlds goes beyond the science fiction plot of the movie Inception. A dream expert from Harvard University explains how it works; Jordan Lite

April 1, 2009
How Room Designs Affect Your Work and Mood: Brain research can help us craft spaces that relax, inspire, awaken, comfort and heal; Emily Anthes

July 29, 2011Technology
Blogs: face the conversation: The 20th century was highly unusual when it comes to the media and to the way people receive and exchange information. Telephone, telegraph, telegram, telex and telefax changed the way we communicated with each other...; Bora Zivkovic

July 23, 2014Mind & Brain
Why Do High Heels Make Women Seem More Attractive?: On a trip to Italy a few years ago, my partner and I peered into the faraway distance at that famously angled phallus that is the Leaning Tower of Pisa, when suddenly we became aware of a small scene unfolding before us...; Jesse Bering

August 12, 2014Mind & Brain
This Queasy Love: How Having Frequent Diarrhea as a Child Shapes Your Adult Mate Choice: It's not everyday that love and diarrhea come together in theoretical matrimony. Recently, however, a study by an interdisciplinary team of scientists managed to form this near-perfect union...; Jesse Bering

April 3, 2018Policy
How to Foster Diversity in Science through Storytelling: Men’s scientific stories receive greater coverage in media whereas women’s contributions to progress are notoriously absent; Jenn Halweil

February 1, 1983The Sciences
Metamagical Themas, February 1983: The pleasures of Lisp: the chosen language of artificial intelligence; Douglas R. Hofstadter; Scientific American Volume 248, Issue 2; 10.1038/scientificamerican0283-14; Originally published as "Metamagical Themas" in Scientific American Volume 248, Issue 2

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