Scientific American

Research on Alzheimer’s has mainly focused on Caucasians. New findings, however, suggest the disease process that leads to dementia may ...

Is our future written in our genes? … King’s College London geneticist Robert Plomin, in his new book, Blueprint, presents DNA ...

Anna Abraham wrote a wonderful resource that covers some of the most hot button topics in the field [of the neuroscience of creativity] ...

[T]he first penicillin-resistant pathogen was detected in 1940. Since then, many other antibacterial drugs (both natural and semisynthetic) have been ...

Renate Flens, a German woman in her 60s who suffers from depression, tells her psychotherapist that she wants to love ...

Everybody knows about the K/Pg Mass Extinction. As soon as we learn about dinosaurs, and demand to know why we ...

Are you an early-rising lark or a night owl? These terms have gained scientific credibility, with researchers determining such differences ...

Philosopher Peter Carruthers insists that conscious thought, judgment and volition are illusions. … [Carruthers:] Thoughts such as decisions and judgments ...

For centuries, some indigenous groups in South America have relied on a brew made from the parts of a local ...

[In] a new study conducted by Ana Dimitrijevic and colleagues, [the researchers] attempted to assess the relationship between multiple indicators of ...

What intellectual capacities—or if one prefers, cognitive virtues—should the citizens of a modern democratic society possess? For decades, one dominant ...

It is well known that a high salt diet leads to high blood pressure, a risk factor for an array of health ...

[A]round nine years after [Katherine] Mydland-aas’s cleaning rituals began, a psychologist diagnosed her with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and referred her ...

When Ryan Darby was a neurology resident, he was familiar with something called alien limb syndrome, but that did not ...

Over the last few decades, researchers tinkering with molecules that turn an immune cell on and off have created a ...

If you are convinced your dog is a genius, you may be disappointed in the conclusions of a study just published ...

In four adjacent enclosures transplantation researcher Bruno Reichart kept four happy baboons. … Most importantly, he says, they were healthy ...

So how is it that we can ride a bicycle when we haven’t done so in years? As it turns ...

There are an estimated 80,000 people, mostly men, in solitary confinement in U.S. prisons. They are confined to windowless cells ...

Some scientists have proposed genetically modified (GM) mosquitoes as a solution to controlling malaria, a scourge that has been around ...

A stressed-out and traumatized father can leave scars in his children. New research suggests this happens because sperm “learn” paternal ...

Marijuana has been legalized in some capacity in 31 U.S. states, in large part due to a softening stance around ...

If you stumbled across a radio or a computer and had no idea how it worked, you would likely first ...

Click-worthy health and science headlines are an essential currency in today’s media world. When they pertain to autism, they might ...

According to a recent report in the New York Times, the Department of Health and Human Services is “considering narrowly defining gender as ...

Spanish neuroscientist Santiago Ramón y Cajal revolutionized the study of the brain when he observed neurons for the first time ...

Sex can be much more complicated than it at first seems. According to the simple scenario, the presence or absence ...