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September 28, 2012Biology
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

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

September 1, 2009Mind & Brain
What Is It Like to Be a Baby?: Alison Gopnik investigates the infant mind

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

March 1, 2015Neuroscience
Readers Respond to "The Future of the Brain": Letters to the editor from the November/December 2014 issue of Scientific American MIND; Scientific American Mind Volume 26, Issue 2; 10.1038/scientificamericanmind0315-4; Originally published as "Letters" in Scientific American Mind Volume 26, Issue 2

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

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

June 13, 1874The Sciences
The Increased Uses of the Members: Scientific American Volume 30, Issue 24; 10.1038/scientificamerican06131874-368b

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

August 28, 2017
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

August 2, 2006Mind & Brain
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

September 1, 2016Policy
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; Scientific American Volume 315, Issue 3; 10.1038/scientificamerican0916-70; Originally published as "All Too Human" in Scientific American Volume 315, Issue 3

November 18, 2014
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

June 19, 2015Technology
See-and-Tell AI Machine Can Describe Objects It Observes: Building on advances in object recognition, machine translation and neural networks, scientists have developed software that converts pictures into sentences; Dan Falk

July 1, 2009Mind & Brain
Are certain genders or body types better at the art of persuasion?: Social psychologist Rosanna E. Guadagno of the University of Alabama replies; The Editors; July/August 2009; 10.1038/scientificamericanmind0709-70; Originally published as "Ask the Brains" in July/August 2009

November 8, 2018Neuroscience
Deep-Brain Recordings May Show Where Unhappiness Lives: New recordings of electrical activity in the brain help reveal the underpinnings of bad moods; Angus Chen

December 1, 2008Mind & Brain
Ask the Brains: What Is Sleep Paralysis?: Also: Why we sometimes wake up with explosions going off in our heads; Randolph W. Evans and Christopher French; December 2008/January 2009; 10.1038/scientificamericanmind1208-86; Originally published as "Ask the Brains" in December 2008/January 2009

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