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.

The brain weighs factors based on their importance to oneself and one’s social world as part of a complex calculation that shapes behavior ...

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.

Please send suggestions to Scientific American’s Mind Matters editor Daisy Yuhas at [email protected].

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 … ...

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.

A science magazine endorsed Democratic nominee Kamala Harris for president. Critics slammed the endorsement, raising concerns about science mixing with politics.

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 ...