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- Scientific American Volume 312, Issue 1 Technology
Pacemaker Powered by Heartbeats Has Watch Parts
An automatic wristwatch mechanism harnesses heartbeats - Scientific American Volume 312, Issue 1 Technology
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A World of Tiny Movements [Video]
The video "motion microscope" makes invisible changes visible in people and objects - Special Editions Volume 23, Issue 5s Mind & Brain
Rational and Irrational Thought: The Thinking that IQ Tests Miss
Why smart people sometimes do dumb things - In-Depth Reports Mind & Brain
Keep Your 2015 Resolutions
Whether you want to conquer bad habits or build a healthier routine, you can learn how to pick and stick to any goal - Scientific American Volume 312, Issue 1 Mind & Brain
Online Survey: Do You Believe That Free Will Exists?
Vote ‘yes’ or ‘no’ on this seminal question that has perplexed philosophers for millenia - Scientific American Volume 312, Issue 1 Space
Book Review: Cosmigraphics
Books and recommendations from Scientific American - Scientific American Mind Volume 26, Issue 1 Mind & Brain
Readers Respond to "The Power of Reflection"
Letters to the editor from the September/October 2014 issue of Scientific American MIND - Inside Science News Service Energy & Sustainability
Can Winter De-Icers Go Completely Green?
Additives to road salt designed to make it more environmentally friendly might still have tradeoffs - Dog Spies Mind & Brain
28 Santa-Approved Dog Science Articles
Can't believe so-and-so said that in front of everyone? Is it time for a break from members of your own species? The dogs are here to help. - Scientific American Volume 312, Issue 1 Space
NASA’s Asteroid Retrieval Mission Faces Criticism
The agency’s proposed human trip to a space rock has a bumpy road ahead - Scientific American Mind Volume 26, Issue 1 Health
How Would a Psychologist Get in Shape?
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Succulent Science: The Role of Fats in Making a Perfect Pastry
A tasty food science task from Science Buddies - Chemical & Engineering News More Science
Chemical Cocktail Lures Bedbugs and Coaxes Them to Stay Put
A mixture of volatile organic compounds and histamine, a compound we produce during immune responses, could enable cheaper pest detection and control - Roots of Unity More Science
What We Talk about When We Talk about Holes
For Halloween, I wrote about a very scary topic: higher homotopy groups. Homotopy is an idea in topology, the field of math concerned with properties of shapes that stay the same no matter how you squish or stretch them, as long as you don’t tear them or glue things together. - Scientific American Volume 312, Issue 1 More Science
Large Loon Fossil, with Lots of Teeth, 1915
Innovation and discovery as chronicled in past issues of Scientific American - Scientific American Mind Volume 25, Issue 1 Mind & Brain
Filling in the _________
Your brain fills in all kinds of visual gaps - Beautiful Minds Mind & Brain
The Messy Minds of Creative People
Creativity is very messy. According to one prominent theory, the creative process involves four stages: preparation, incubation, illumination, and verification. - Scientific American Volume 312, Issue 1 Health
A Primer on Haemophilia (Graphic)
People with the inherited bleeding disorder haemophilia lack factors that cause the blood to clot. The disease affects thousands of people around the world and has even played a part in historic events - 60-Second Tech Technology
Teen Inventors Connect DVR to Your Zzzs
British students made a wrist monitor that senses if you nod off and sends a signal to your DVR to record whatever you were watching. Future such devices could control additional household functions. Larry Greenemeier reports.
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Images from the Real Face of the Ebola Crisis [Slide Show]
A journalist on a monthlong visit to Sierra Leone provides a realistic view of people living their lives while their nation struggles to recover from a deadly outbreak
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