The idea to study the potentially beneficial influence of mind wandering on information processing occurred to us during the COVID pandemic, when we had plenty of time to mind wander,” says Péter ...

Using a notion called integer partitions, mathematicians have discovered a new way to detect prime numbers while also ...

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Hear takeaways from 35 years at Scientific American from Gary Stix, our recently retired mind and brain editor.

In addition, she manages all special editions and in the past was the editor for Scientific American Mind, Scientific American Space & Physics and Scientific American Health & Medicine.

Scientific American editor steps down after election comments draw backlash Criticism of Laura Helmuth’s comments increased after X owner and Trump ally Elon Musk weighed in.

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Fans of Scientific American might have hoped that activist journalism would leave the magazine along with former editor Laura Helmuth, who resigned in November. Instead, it appears that little has … ...

Scientific American has yet to offer an even-handed review of the new scientific skepticism toward aggressive gender medicine. Instead, in February, the magazine published an opinion column, “ ...

Emily Makowski, a copy editor at Scientific American, describes her ticker-tape synesthesia —the fascinating brain process whereby spoken words run across the mind’s eye like closed captioning.

This article was originally published with the title “Early Concepts of the Senses and the Mind” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 210 No. 5 (May 1964), p. 108 doi:10.1038 ...

The mind in the brain employs the nervous system as so many instruments of communication with the outer world. The eye is necessary to sight, but it does not see; for if thc nerve which forms a ...