Making Eye Contact Signals a New Turn in a Conversation

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September 21, 2021

Psychology Making Eye Contact Signals a New Turn in a Conversation Neuroscientists have uncovered an intriguing subtlety in how we communicate—that is, when we're not on Zoom By Lydia Denworth

Paleontology Kids' Fossilized Handprints May Be Some of the World's Oldest Art Ice Age impressions in limestone show that human ancestors inhabited the area By Nicoletta Lanese,LiveScience

Behavior Discrimination Persists in Society--but Who Discriminates? Is discriminatory behavior widely dispersed or highly concentrated in a small number of people? By David Z. Hambrick

Space Exploration SpaceX's Private Inspiration4 Crew Is Back on Earth The crew's splashdown in the Atlantic Ocean marks the historic mission's end By Amy Thompson,SPACE.com

Dinosaurs Dinosaurs Lived--and Made Little Dinos--in the Arctic New research shows that the prehistoric giants were even cooler than we thought By Karen Hopkin | 04:28

Weather Storm-Steering Jet Stream Could Shift Poleward in 40 Years Changes in the position of the fast-moving air current could disrupt weather patterns By Chelsea Harvey,E&E News

Cognition The Educational Power--and the Limits--of Personalized Children's Books Reading materials individually tailored to young people can boost engagement and learning, but discerning what works is an ongoing challenge By Natalia Kucirkova

Quantum Physics Is There a Thing, or a Relationship between Things, at the Bottom of Things? Quantum mechanics inspires us to speculate that interactions between entities, not entities in themselves, are fundamental to reality By John Horgan

Public Health COVID-Overwhelmed Hospitals Strain Staff and Hope to Avoid Rationing Care There are times when critically ill patients must wait for beds, and some facilities have contingency plans to limit scarce supplies to certain patients By Katherine Harmon Courage

Vaccines A Vaccine against Poison Ivy Misery Is in the Works as Scientists Also Explore New Treatment Paths Standard remedies offer little relief for the itchy rash caused by the plant, but researchers have found promising clues in the immune system By Claudia Wallis

Microbiology Engineered Bacteria Produce a Rainbow of Colors By inserting some genes and knocking down others, scientists solved a core problem in synthetic biology By Maddie Bender

FROM THE STORE Scientific American Volume 325, Issue 4

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FROM THE ARCHIVE When Our Gaze Is a Physical Force Research documents a strange illusion By Robert Martone | December 2020

QUOTE OF THE DAY "Eye contact is not eliciting synchrony; it's disrupting it." Thalia Wheatley, psychologist

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