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Adverse experiences can change future generations through epigenetic pathways -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

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Research suggests platform designs make us lose track of time spent on them and can heighten conflicts, and then we feel upset with ourselves -- Read more on […]

Huda Zoghbi is a clinician-scientist who studies the molecular mechanisms of neurodevelopment and neurodegeneration. This year she shared the Kavli Prize in […]

Nothing is real about the colors you see here -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

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Fieldwork shows white men fighting against equality gains by women and minority groups in the U.S.—and longing to return to a past that nullifies such […]

The psychiatric syndrome called derealization raises profound moral and philosophical questions -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Infants can form memories, just not the kind that recalls specific experiences -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Paid parental leave and high-quality child care improve children’s brain development and prospects for a better future -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Tragedies such as the ones in Uvalde, Tex., and Buffalo, N.Y., can lead to major depression, PTSD and other lingering mental distress among survivors -- Read […]

The stress of COVID fractured a system that was already cracked -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Neural activity probes your physical surroundings to select just the information needed to survive and flourish -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Yes, the COVID pandemic has made the problem worse. But our teens were in trouble long before that -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Lowered conscious reasoning can aid sound-pattern recognition -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Highly assertive, confident individuals may foster a selfish culture that hurts productivity -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Pro-gun advocates claim new laws will not make us safer. But here is evidence the right laws will do exactly that -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Eventually, the most ethical option might be to divert all resources toward building very happy machines -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Several recent studies point to a small, long-overlooked structure in the brain stem as a crucial gatekeeper for the body’s signals -- Read more on […]

The right combination of variables is needed to achieve a blazing success—one explanation for why there was never a “Kinksmania” -- Read more on […]

People working together often scheme to put profits ahead of telling the truth. New research points to ways to stop this behavior -- Read more on […]

New technology is enabling neuroscientists to make increasingly detailed wiring diagrams that could yield new insights into brain function -- Read more on […]

The emotion AI industry, courts and child educators are unknowingly relying on a misunderstanding of Darwin’s ideas -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Turning off the camera when trying to hash out new ideas might help -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Implants are becoming more sophisticated—and are attracting commercial interest -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com