Scientific American Summaries and Reviews

Richard Andersen

A new generation of brain-machine interface can deduce what a person wants

Rowan Jacobsen

Biologists are building an organism that can shrug off any virus on the planet. Impervious human cells may be next

Ann Finkbeiner

Astronomers’ newfound ability to see the same cosmic events in light, particles and gravitational waves – a synthesis called multimessenger astronomy – gives them a fuller picture of some of the universe’s most mysterious phenomena

György Buzsáki

Neural activity probes your physical surroundings to select just the information needed to survive and flourish

Herman Pontzer

Unlike our ape cousins, humans require high levels of physical activity to be healthy

Ronald Hanson and Krister Shalm

Recent experiments quash the hope that the unsettling phenomenon of quantum entanglement can be explained away

Ken A. Paller and Delphine Oudiette

Experimental techniques demonstrate how to strengthen memories when our brains are offline

Lydia Denworth

Social scientists have begun to close in on new ways to stop people from taking their own lives

John McQuaid

Tech companies now use AI to analyze your feelings in job interviews and public spaces. But the software is prone to racial, cultural and gender bias

Diana Kwon

Machines that learn like children provide deep insights into how the mind and body act together to bootstrap knowledge and skills

梅琳达·温拿·莫耶（Melinda Wenner Moyer） 等等

Bret Stetka