Scientific American Podcast: 60-Second Mind Folgen

Watching women in bikinis tends to make men more impulsive when it comes to monetary decisions. Christie Nicholson reports.

A 2007 study published in Science shows that young human children perform as well as apes on intelligence tests, but that kids beat apes in social skills. The lead researcher explains why this difference is crucial. Christie Nicholson reports.

Increasingly, GPS and voice-activated systems in cars are turning a fairly private place into an open vessel for our habits--and as such, a possible boon for advertisers. But they are also becoming something else: our counselors