Mind & Brain
Holiday Dinner, with False Memories for Dessert
Proceed with extreme caution when your family starts to share recollections about you that you yourself don’t remember
Guest Blog
Commentary invited by editors of Scientific American
Environment
Limiting Global Warming Will be Hard, But Hardly Impossible
COP 21's ambitious goals are a call to overcoming the lack of imagination and entrenched groupthink that keep us from seeing and seizing the opportunities at hand
Environment
Making Furniture from Fungi
Your next chair or table could be all natural, free of toxins—and compostable
Health
The Emergency-Care Crisis in Uganda
A program that trains nurses to take over from badly overextended physicians could be part of the solution
The Sciences
How to Tell an Engaging Story of Scientific Discovery
Shrouding science communication in distance and jargon is like throwing in the towel on public engagement
The Sciences
Personalized Medicine: A Faustian Bargain?
Therapies tailored to an individual's particular genetic makeup could be highly effective—but they could also be too expensive for many of those whose DNA donations go into creating the treatments...
The Sciences
What It's Like to Live on Mars
Report from a simulated Martian research station
Mind & Brain
Outgrowing Autism? A Closer Look at Children Who Read Early or Speak Late
Some of these children may never have had autism in the first place, despite being diagnosed with it
Environment
Climate Change and Millennials: The Future Is in Our Hands
The COP 21 talks in Paris have attracted throngs of young people—and they're tired of waiting patiently for their elders to do something
Health
Sometimes It's Okay to Give Patients a Treatment with No Proved Medical Benefits
Among the terminally ill, finding solace in the placebo effect
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Mathematics: learning it, doing it, celebrating it.
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Adventures in the good science of rock-breaking.
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