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Religious belief may seem to be a unique psychological experience, but a growing body of research shows that thinking about religion is no different from thinking about secular things--at least from the standpoint of the brain. In the first imaging stud

Google/Dish collaboration promises customized program schedules, targeted ads, and Google-powered TV show searching No longer simply content to rule the world of computers, the Google juggernaut has teamed up with Dish Network to bring its targeted ads an

Researchers say an afternoon nap prepares the brain to learnMAD dogs and Englishmen, so the song has it, go out in the midday sun. And the business practices of England’s lineal descendant, America, will have you in the office from nine in the morning t

Reading a clock is one thing; really knowing the time is quite another. For everyday timekeeping needs, we use a standard known as Coordinated Universal Time, or UTC, which is derived from International Atomic Time, a consensus of more than 200 clocks tha

When Pulitzer Prize–winning music critic Tim Page was in second grade, he and his classmates went on a field trip to Boston. He later wrote about the experience as a class assignment, and what follows is an excerpt:“Well, we went to Boston, Massachuse

The Other Brain: From Dementia to Schizophrenia, How New Discoveries about the Brain Are Revolutionizing Medicine and Science by R. Douglas Fields. [More]

Hold onto your remote control: 3-D television is on the way . By the end of the year, most of the major TV manufacturers, including LG Electronics, Panasonic, Samsung and Sony, will be selling displays capable of showing 3-D movies and other programming.

Life: Extraordinary Animals, Extreme Behaviour by Martha Holmes and Michael Gunton. University of California Press, 2010 [More]

How it got trapped in the ice, and how it got out.

Next time you find yourself in a bad mood, don’t try to put on a happy face--instead tackle a project that has been stymieing you. [More]

Editor's Note: Journalist and crew member Kathryn Eident and scientist Jeremy Jacquot are traveling on board the RV Atlantis on a monthlong voyage to sample and study nitrogen fixation in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean, among other research projects.

If you fall into the niche category of eco-conscious boating enthusiast with a desire to circumnavigate the globe on a 100-feet-long catamaran, your long wait is finally over. PlanetSolar - the dream of skipper Roaphael Domjan since 2004 and under constru

Dams of ice that usually plug straits leading out of the Arctic Ocean are failing to form, letting sea ice escape to the Atlantic and Pacific

This year’s meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science looked at, among other things, fire, siestas, alien life and nuclear forensicsCALIFORNIA, though regarded by some as one of the more civilised parts of the world, is prey to

Figure skating is one of the most popular sports in the winter Olympics. In this exclusive Scientific American video, contributing editor Christie Nicholson takes you inside the sport, to explore the physics behind a figure skater’s spectacular moves.

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