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SCIENTIFICAMERICANOnly Half of Drugs Removed by Sewage Treatment
Only about half of the prescription drugs and other newly emerging contaminants in sewage are removed by treatment plants says a new report.
SCIENTIFICAMERICANMindfulness Training for Teens Fails Important Test
A large trial in schools showed no evidence of benefits, and hints it could even cause problems.
SCIENTIFICAMERICANBorges and Memory: Encounters with the Human Brain
What is the genesis of Funes the Memorious, the Jorge Luis Borges story about a mnemonist that fascinates neuroscientists, and is as famed a fictional treatise on memory as anything but Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past?
scientificamericanQuantum Physics May Be Even Spookier Than You Think
A new experiment hints at surprising hidden mechanics of quantum superpositions
SCIENTIFICAMERICANThe Psychological Power of Satan
How a belief in “pure evil” shapes people’s thinking.
scientificamericanPhilosophy Has Made Plenty of Progress
Philosopher Tim Maudlin sees advances in free will, morality and the meaning of quantum mechanics. (I don't think so, but let's leave it here for reference).
scientificamericanA Trillion Worlds
Big-data statistics have revealed, among other things, that our own solar system is kind of an oddball.
scientificamericanBrain’s Dumped DNA May Lead to Stress, Depression
New research suggests genetic material from the mitochondria can trigger an immune response throughout the body
SCIENTIFICAMERICANWhy Do We Say That Someone Is Hot?
Scientists are discovering the primal links between physical warmth and our emotions
SCIENTIFICAMERICANThe Saddest Thing I Know about the Integers
We can't tune pianos because prime numbers. // The integers are a unique factorization domain, so we can’t tune pianos. That is the saddest thing I know about the integers.
SCIENTIFICAMERICANReasoning Is Sharper in a Foreign Language
We might be least rational about money in our native tongues.
SCIENTIFICAMERICANShine on you crazy diamond: why humans are carbon-based lifeforms
Everything on earth is made up of combinations of different elements - all of which can be found on the periodic table. Considering that the periodic table contains 118 elements it seems a pity that organic life tends to feature only five or six of those elements in any vast quantities. The main one being carbon.
scientificamericanThe Paradox of Karl Popper
The great philosopher, renowned for his ferocious attacks on scientific and political dogmatism, could be quite dogmatic
ScientificAmericanThe Utter Failure of Fictional Time Travel
An answer to why we’ve not been visited from the future?
scientificamericanThe Philosophical Implications of the Urge to Urinate
The state of our body affects how we think the world works
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