neuroscience
Music therapy might boost memory, but the benefits are small. Just in case, tell your grandparents to listen to their favorite 1960s tunes.
Isn’t more sleep always better?
Many have argued that free will is an illusion, but science does not support that.
We seem to be wired to calculate not the shortest path but the “pointiest” one, facing us toward our destination as much as possible.
Daylight saving time was first implemented during the first world war to take advantage of longer daylight hours and save energy. While this made a difference when we heavily relied on coal […]
These studies are only the tip of the iceberg, with adverse consequence of the time change ranging from student test scores to stock market returns.
One hypothesis says that sleep helps “clean” the brain of damaged molecules and toxic proteins.
Dedicated circuits evaluate uncertainty in the brain, preventing it from using unreliable information to make decisions.
In an excerpt from her recent book, the behavior geneticist Kathryn Paige Harden carefully explores a topic that’s often considered taboo: how genetics affect life outcomes.
Elevated blood pressure, even within the normal range, is associated with accelerated brain aging.
Marijuana use among college students in 2020 reached levels not seen since the 1980s.
“Theory of mind” enables all people to naturally infer other people’s mental states. Psychopaths don’t seem to put much effort into the process.
Scientists use tripping rats to show that LSD disrupts communication between two key brain regions.
“I suddenly woke up one day and thought, you idiot, you are letting your life fade away, you have got to do something.”
Objective reality exists, but what can you know about it that isn’t subjective. According to some neuroscientists, not much.
A new study upends a long-standing theory on how the brain plans motor actions in uncertain environments.
Anxiety can be good or bad. It turns out that it’s really up to you.
How the brain decides what to store and what to forget.
Your emotional brain is being manipulated to shop more, but there are ways to resist.
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Science confirms what you already knew about being helpful to others.
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Money can buy happiness — if you spend it on others, research suggests.
Through self-tracking and self-experimentation, we can greatly improve our cognitive capacity.
For nearly two centuries, courts have relied on the subjective “reasonable person standard” to solve legal disputes. Now, science can help.
The way we imagine and listen to melodies sheds light on imagination.
Humans are wired for short-term thinking according to neuroscience, making it difficult to save for retirement.
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Our brains believe $10 today is more tangible than $100 next year.
Some neurology experiments — such as growing miniature human brains and reanimating the brains of dead pigs — are getting weird. It’s time to discuss ethics.
For some reason, the bodies of deceased monks stay “fresh” for a long time.