Boy or girl? Even before a person is born, that’s the first thing everyone wants to know—underscoring just how much value humans place on gender. In this eBook, we take a closer look at the anatomical, chemical and functional differences in the brains of men and women—as well as some surprising similarities.
* Editor’s note: Special Edition was published as His Brain, Her Brain.
How do you know that a real-live human being is behind the past 14 weeks of blog posts exploring the individual questions posed to presidential candidates by ScienceDebate.org?
This week is Brain Awareness Week 2015! A number of great events are taking place around the world to promote public education of the brain and to support research in neurological and psychiatric diseases...
To find out when whooping cough started making a comeback in Ohio, or how often measles kills in America, we turn to historical records. But those records aren’t very useful when they’re squirreled away in a distant office basement...
Homosexuality is a lifestyle choice. Or so religious conservatives would have us believe. But liberalism is in our genes. Or so researchers at the University of California, San Diego, and Harvard University would have us believe...
Tens of millions of people minister to a loved one on a full- or part-time basis, often putting their own lives on hold. Now researchers are finding ways to help them care for others without losing themselves ...
Francine Russo
Scientific American Mind Volume 27, Issue 6
10.1038/scientificamericanmind1116-28
Originally published as "The Givers" in Scientific American Mind Volume 27, Issue 6
Often forgotten for its roles outside of bone structure, calcium is key for Purkinje cells. These neurons, which help to monitor balance and posture, rely on the element for synaptic neurotransmitter movement and cell communication...
Credit: Dana Simmons Christian Hansel Laboratory, University of Chicago
Teleportation, cloaks of invisibility, smell-o-vision, 3D printing, and even holograms, were all ideas first imagined in science fiction—and now are real products and technologies in various stages of development by scientists...
Blog of the Week:Contagions is a blog written by Michelle Ziegler (Twitter, Facebook, the other two blogs by Michelle - Heavenfield and Selah - are focused entirely on history and not on medicine or science)...
Hardcover | E-book | Audio bookHere’s to the kids who are different,The kids who don’t always get A’sThe kids who have ears twice the size of their peers, And noses that go on for days ...
The November/December Scientific American Mind, which debuted online today, examines the origins of genius, a concept that inspires both awe and confusion.
