Scientific American

People who have autism, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder may have different challenges, but the ailments might arise from a common ...

Bad luck. Terrible misfortune. That's what we think when we hear about a perfectly healthy child who suddenly dies of ...

From savoring a piece of cake to hugging a friend, many of life’s pleasures trigger a similar reaction in the ...

[A] new study makes a remarkable connection between experience and the genetic diversity of the brain. It suggests that experience can change ...

[After news of the Golden State Killer arrest], The New York Times reported arrests in long-dormant cases in Washington State and ...

Is lower academic achievement in early life tied to the same gene changes as an increased risk for Alzheimer’s in ...

[Dissociative identity disorder is], a condition in which the psyche gives rise to multiple, operationally separate centers of consciousness, each ...

The field of cytometry, or cell measurement—which helps doctors diagnose problems including cancer, in which cells morph into unusual forms—has ...

[In 2000] geneticists were running a sweepstake on how many genes humans have, and wagers ranged from tens of thousands ...

In an ischemic stroke a clot blocks a blood vessel to the brain, depriving oxygen and nutrients to part of ...

Every patient is unique, and the art of medicine is the component of the practice that addresses such uniqueness with ...

Imagine if we could rewire our brains so that tastes we usually crave became unpleasant—or even nullify responses to taste ...

We use the term “normal” so casually and so often that it seems utterly…normal. But in a compelling Trends in Cognitive ...

One of the things that surprised me in researching this story was that I could not find a single organic-approved ...

If all goes according to plan, the annual flu shot protects about 60 percent of vaccinated people. This year’s inoculation, of course, ...

Insects are everywhere—in the air, on the ground, in the ground, and sometimes in your house and food. Yet there ...

[P]hysicians have noted that constipation is one of the most common symptoms of Parkinson’s, appearing in around half the individuals diagnosed with ...

Which is more fundamental, mind or matter? You would think, in our ultra-materialistic era, that debate would be settled. But ...

Dog lovers talk a big game when it comes to genetics. Who hasn’t heard someone claim to know which breeds ...

Science denialism can seem intractable, and studies on the topic are seldom encouraging. For example, research out of Yale Law ...

Some astronomers are questioning the existence of what might be the most Earth-like planet yet found outside the solar system, based ...

Is there a contradiction between religion and an evolutionary, Old Earth view of the natural world? While this varies from ...

Neuroscientists today know a lot about how individual neurons operate but remarkably little about how large numbers of them work ...

Five years ago [pancreatic cancer] was the fourth-leading cause of cancer deaths in the U.S. Today it's number three and ...