Our Memory Is Even Better Than Experts Thought

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May 25, 2021

Cognition Our Memory Is Even Better Than Experts Thought In some respects, memory is poor. In others, it is astonishingly good By Nicole C. Rust

Conservation De-Ratting Rat Island Brought Silent Ecosystem Back to Life The impact was clear up and down the coastal food chain By Rachel Nuwer

Space Decoded: What Are Black Holes? The mysteries packed inside these invisible space objects stretch our concepts of space and time By Michael Tabb,Andrea Gawrylewski,Jeffery DelViscio,Macarena Carrizosa

Neuroscience Injection of Light-Sensitive Proteins Restores Blind Man's Vision The first successful clinical test of optogenetics lets a person see for the first time in decades, with help from image-enhancing goggles By Sara Reardon,Nature Medicine

Environment Greenland Glaciers May Be Leaking Mercury The toxin's presence in meltwater raises concerns for fishing, a primary food source for Indigenous communities By Chelsea Harvey,E&E News

Policy & Ethics How COVID Changed Science It's not just the speed and focus with which the community responded, but the singular willingness of scientists all over the world to share new ideas and data immediately and transparently By William A. Haseltine

Policy & Ethics The Supreme Court's Assault on Science A recent decision that makes it easier to sentence children to life without parole ignores what we know about the prefrontal cortex By Daniel Weinberger

Climate Yellowstone Is Warming at Its Fastest Rate in 1,250 Years The summer of 2016 was the hottest in the nation's first and oldest national park since 770 By Chelsea Harvey,E&E News

Evolution New Process Helps Unscramble Dinosaur Boneyard Chaos Piecing together a paleontological puzzle By Riley Black

Policy & Ethics Modi Is Worsening the Suffering from India's Pandemic An authoritarian apparatus is being turned on wider society with lethal consequences By Chitrangada Choudhury

Natural Disasters Congo's Mount Nyiragongo Volcano Erupts, Sending Thousands Fleeing The peak is one of the world's most active volcanoes, last erupting in 2002 By Jeanna Bryner,LiveScience

Space The Subatomic Keys to the Universe Surprising new data from the Muon g-2 experiment are turning the classical model on its head By Andrea Gawrylewski

FROM THE STORE Scientific American Space & Physics, Volume 4, Issue 3

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FROM THE ARCHIVE A Successful Artificial Memory Has Been Created The growing science of memory manipulation raises social and ethical questions By Robert Martone | August 2019

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