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Oldsters' New Fountain of Youth: Video Games

Some specially tailored games seem to help preserve mental fitness.

Smell Your Way to Happiness

An ancient type of incense seems to act like an antidepressant drug when injected.

Mind Control?

In the 1950s, visitors to a brothel atop San Francisco’s Telegraph Hill got more than just a tryst and a view of the bay. Clients were secretly dosed with LSD as CIA agents watched from behind a one-way mirror. When the CIA decided to experiment with acid as a truth serum, it had little to know idea what it was getting itself into.

The Truth About Traffic

Who's controlling traffic? How? Tom Vanderbilt's new book explores the past, present, and future of the way we drive.

Will Loneliness Spell Society's Doom?

A University of Chicago psychologist explores the dangers of loneliness, and how it can lead humans to a miserable life and even an early grave.

The Science of Sniffing Out Liars

An interrogation expert spills his secrets on next-generation polygraphs, neuroscientific mind-reading, torture as interrogation, and why humans are still the best lie detectors.

Can Schizophrenia Be Cured Before It Starts?

A psychiatrist has launched an experimental treatment program for teenage mental illness, based on the radical view that psychotic illnesses, including schizophrenia, can be prevented if caught early. But does it really work?

What are Smells Made of?

From green tea to farts, a smell expert breaks down the chemicals of odor.

How Your Brain Can Control Time

The three methods your mind uses to reverse, speed, and even slow the minutes.

Exactly How Smart Is Man's Best Friend?

Just how smart is your favorite canine? A new "pooch IQ test" could help you find out—or can it?

What Does Alzheimer's Look Like in Your Brain?

What does Alzheimer's look like? An artist's 3-D rendering of a peptide that is a surefire marker for the disease gives researchers a clearer picture of what to look for—and possibly how to stop it.

How Terrorism Paranoia Killed 1,600 Americans in 2002

Widespread fear after 9/11 pushed people from (safe) planes to (dangerous) cars.

Laughter May Outlive Humans—and Even Numbers

In the Year Million, though, I think humor will be esteemed as the most universal aspect of culture. And number will have lost its transcendental reputation and be looked upon as a local artifact, like a computer operating system or an accounting scheme. If I am right, then SETI scientists should not be listening for primes but for something quite different.

The Blind Climber Who "Sees" With His Tongue

Erik Weihenmayer is the first and only blind man ever to scale Mount Everest. Now he's learning to "see" as he climbs—with the help a device that sends "vision" (electrical impulses) to his tongue, not his eyes.

Complexity in a Grain of Sand; Simplicity in a Book

"Simplexity" explores the intricacy of everyday life.

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