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April 9, 2013Health
New Job for Brain Scientists: Pitching Mutual Funds: I was watching one of the March Madness games recently with my son Benjamin. He is the only one in the world I can do this with because I can ask him what the difference is between the shot clock in the NBA and the one in the NCAA without being asked to immediately produce a green card.During a commercial break, a familiar face popped onto the screen...; Gary Stix

October 7, 2013The Scicurious Brain
Did Your Daddy Raise You to Sing Like That?: When most of us hear birds twittering away in the trees, we hear it as background noise. It’s often hard to separate out one bird from another.; Scicurious

August 27, 2009Mind & Brain
Breasts in Mourning: How Bottle-Feeding Mimics Child Loss in Mothers’ Brains: After a successful birth, opting not to breast-feed may trigger evolved mourning behaviors; Jesse Bering

June 26, 2014Cross-Check
More Cool Sh*t I’ve Read—and Seen—Lately: This is the fourth installment of my monthly feature "Cool Sh*t I've Read Lately,” in which I draw attention to, um, cool stuff. (Here are columns one, two and three.) Breakthrough Journal...; John Horgan

September 1, 2010Mind & Brain
Readers Respond to "He Said, She Said"-- And More...: Letters to the editor about the May/June 2010 issue of Scientific American MIND; The Editors; September / October 2010; 10.1038/scientificamericanmind0910-4; Originally published as "May/June 2010 Issue" in September / October 2010

March 1, 2015
Readers Respond to "The Future of the Brain": Letters to the editor from the November/December 2014 issue of Scientific American MIND

September 28, 2012
How We Know That Humans Are Getting Smarter [Excerpt]: In this excerpt from his new book, James R. Flynn explains how he came to understand how our minds have gained in cognitive skills during the 20th century; James R. Flynn

October 11, 2012
Scoping Science: How Do Animals Look for Food?: An eagle-eyed activity from Scientific American; Daisy Yuhas

May 6, 2016Cognition
Dispatch from the Desert of Consciousness Research, Part 2: A reporter ponders free will and struggles with quantum incoherence at a consciousness conference in Tucson; John Horgan

August 23, 2018Neuroscience
How Can We Tell If a Comatose Patient Is Conscious?: Neurologist Steven Laureys looks for signs of consciousness in unresponsive patients; Anouk Bercht and Steven Laureys

November 18, 2014The Sciences
How Scientific Are Your Instruments?: What do coins, a Wii remote, or card games have to do with science? More than you might think. Scientific instruments are devices specifically designed to measure the subject of your research reliably and accurately...; Amanda Baker

August 28, 2017Policy
The Science of Sex Differences: Still Under Construction: Our understanding is rudimentary, but that doesn’t stop people, including a now-former Google software engineer, from pretending otherwise; Angela Saini

September 1, 2016
Would You Live Forever (If You Could)?: Uploading your brain into a computer is probably impossible. But for sake of argument: What would you do if it weren’t?; Hillary Rosner

August 2, 2006
The Expert Mind and the Interplanetary Bicycle Ride: In this episode, Phil Ross talks about what scientists have learned is necessary to achieve expertise in virtually any field. Ross's article on the subject, The Expert Mind, is in the August issue of Scientific American...; Steve Mirsky

December 16, 2011Cognition
Pelé and Maradona Help Us Understand How Memory Works: Three things stand out about our memories of life experiences, so-called autobiographical memories. Two of them are pretty obvious. One, not so much.; Gary Stix

June 3, 2010Biology
The 2010 Kavli Prizes honors eight scientists in astrophysics, nanotech and neuroscience: Eight scientists will share three million-dollar Kavli Prizes for their contributions in the fields of astrophysics, nanoscience and neuroscience. The announcement was made today in Oslo, Norway, by Nils Christian Stenseth, president of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, and broadcast live at the opening of the World Science Festival in New York City...; Katie Moisse

May 14, 2016Cognition
Dispatch from the Desert of Consciousness Research, Part 4: On his last day at a consciousness conference, a reporter spots a white rabbit and discovers the solution to the mind – body problem...; John Horgan

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