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Official website of Scientific American magazine.

"A team of physicists [...] sought to determine the underlying statistical properties of this new information paradigm by studying the behaviors of tags [...] on the social bookmarking/collaborat

"...a team of researchers [...] may finally have found the cause of the swirling textures, blurry visions and signal-crossing synesthesia brought on by hallucinogenic drugs like LSD..." My i

"The operation known as hemispherectomy—where half the brain is removed—sounds too radical to ever consider, much less perform." Have you read Blindsight? Read this.

Peter Pressman of the Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Beverly Hills, Calif. and Roger Clemens of the University of Southern California School of Pharmacy explain. #break# Food craving, defined as an

New research from the University of Wisconsin-Madison finds that we can acquire a greater capacity for compassion through meditation training, in much the same way as athletes or musicians train to im

Many people assume that superior intelligence or ability is a key to success. But more than three decades of research shows that an overemphasis on intellect or talent leaves people vulnerable to fail

An interesting article about boredom.

Ray Kurzweil waxes lyrical about genetics, synthetic biology and the future of being human. Via Advanced Nanotechnology.

"It is not as easy as you would think. Models of supernovae have failed to reproduce these explosions--until recently." Link via SF Signal (cheers John!)

"High concentrations of phosphorus in a Martian ocean," Greenwood and Blake conclude, "would not be expected if Mars had an active biosphere during the ocean's existence." Martian

"Although for centuries astonishing and terrifying advances have been made in the technology of conflict, soldiers are basically the same. They must eat, sleep, discern friend from foe, heal when

"You may have thought your only recourse against this scourge is a hastily folded cocktail napkin stuffed under the offending leg." You'd be wrong - I've shown this trick off at pubs and bar