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How Parents' Trauma Leaves Biological Traces in Children
by Rachel Yehuda on June 25, 2022 at 1:00 pm
Adverse experiences can change future generations through epigenetic pathways -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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A Playbook for Science Denial, 'Scientific Phallocracy' in the Animal Kingdom, and More
by Amy Brady on June 20, 2022 at 1:00 pm
Recommendations from the editors of Scientific American -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Why Social Media Makes People Unhappy--And Simple Ways to Fix It
by Daisy Yuhas on June 20, 2022 at 10:45 am
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 […]
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The Kavli Prize Presents: Understanding Neurodevelopment and Neurodegeneration [Sponsored]
by Scientific American Custom Media on June 17, 2022 at 3:00 pm
Huda Zoghbi is a clinician-scientist who studies the molecular mechanisms of neurodevelopment and neurodegeneration. This year she shared the Kavli Prize in […]
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Strawberry Fields
by Stephen Macknik and Susana Martinez-Conde on June 16, 2022 at 1:00 pm
Nothing is real about the colors you see here -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Behind Every Smile
by Andrea Gawrylewski on June 16, 2022 at 1:00 pm
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Militia Expert Warns Trump's Capitol Insurrectionists Could Try Again
by Amy Cooter on June 16, 2022 at 1:00 pm
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 […]
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When Things Feel Unreal, Is That a Delusion or an Insight?
by John Horgan on June 14, 2022 at 10:00 am
The psychiatric syndrome called derealization raises profound moral and philosophical questions -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Why You Can't Remember Being Born: A Look at 'Infantile Amnesia'
by Vanessa LoBue, The Conversation US on June 10, 2022 at 1:00 pm
Infants can form memories, just not the kind that recalls specific experiences -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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U.S. Kids Are Falling behind Global Competition, but Brain Science Shows How to Catch Up
by Dana Suskind, Lydia Denworth on June 7, 2022 at 1:00 pm
Paid parental leave and high-quality child care improve children’s brain development and prospects for a better future -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Mass Shootings Leave Lasting Psychological Wounds
by Claudia Wallis on June 6, 2022 at 4:05 pm
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 […]
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Mental Health Care Should Be Available for All, Not a Luxury
by Sarah Sloat on June 1, 2022 at 3:00 pm
The stress of COVID fractured a system that was already cracked -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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How the Brain 'Constructs' the Outside World
by György Buzsáki on May 31, 2022 at 2:30 pm
Neural activity probes your physical surroundings to select just the information needed to survive and flourish -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Science Shows How to Protect Kids' Mental Health, but It's Being Ignored
by Mitch Prinstein, Kathleen A. Ethier on May 31, 2022 at 2:00 pm
Yes, the COVID pandemic has made the problem worse. But our teens were in trouble long before that -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Tired Adults May Learn Language like Children Do
by Matthew Hutson on May 31, 2022 at 10:45 am
Lowered conscious reasoning can aid sound-pattern recognition -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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How Dominant Leaders Go Wrong
by Hemant Kakkar, Niro Sivanathan on May 30, 2022 at 2:00 pm
Highly assertive, confident individuals may foster a selfish culture that hurts productivity -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Four Laws That Could Stem the Rising Threat of Mass Shootings
by Melinda Wenner Moyer on May 25, 2022 at 4:00 pm
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
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We Shouldn't Try to Make Conscious Software--Until We Should
by Jim Davies on May 18, 2022 at 10:45 am
Eventually, the most ethical option might be to divert all resources toward building very happy machines -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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How the Brain Tells Apart Important and Unimportant Sensations
by Eiman Azim, Sliman Bensmaia, Lee E. Miller, Chris Versteeg on May 16, 2022 at 2:00 pm
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 […]
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Can't Buy Me Luck: The Role of Serendipity in the Beatles' Success
by Lydia Denworth on May 4, 2022 at 10:45 am
The right combination of variables is needed to achieve a blazing success—one explanation for why there was never a “Kinksmania” -- Read more on […]
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The Dark Side of Collaboration
by Margarita Leib on April 29, 2022 at 2:00 pm
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 […]
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Mapping the Brain to Understand the Mind
by Monique Brouillette, Knowable Magazine on April 28, 2022 at 3:00 pm
New technology is enabling neuroscientists to make increasingly detailed wiring diagrams that could yield new insights into brain function -- Read more on […]
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Facial Expressions Do Not Reveal Emotions
by Lisa Feldman Barrett on April 27, 2022 at 7:00 pm
The emotion AI industry, courts and child educators are unknowingly relying on a misunderstanding of Darwin’s ideas -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Brainstorming on Zoom Hampers Creativity
by Bret Stetka on April 27, 2022 at 3:00 pm
Turning off the camera when trying to hash out new ideas might help -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Brain-Reading Devices Help Paralyzed People Move, Talk and Touch
by Liam Drew, Nature magazine on April 22, 2022 at 3:00 pm
Implants are becoming more sophisticated—and are attracting commercial interest -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com