Scientific American Résumés

Bret Stetka

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

Daisy Yuhas

Research suggests platform designs make us lose track of time spent on them and can heighten conflicts, and then we feel upset with ourselves

Katie Worth

Oil and gas representatives influence the standards for courses and textbooks, from kindergarten to 12th grade.

Simon Makin

Hundreds of thousands of people experience mania without ever getting depressed. Why does psychiatry insist on calling them bipolar?

Matthew Fisher et al.

As political polarization grows, the arguments we have with one another may be shifting our understanding of truth itself

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

Sophie Bushwick

New technology delivers power to electronic devices in a test space

Dina Fine Maron

After false starts, researchers are making progress toward treating deafness with gene therapy

Jeffrey P. Townsend

Evolutionary studies indicate that the genetic changes enabling a cancer to develop arise shockingly early within the primary tumor. This discovery points to a promising new approach to therapy

György Buzsáki

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