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A powerful new tool lights up the brains of worms, and may soon help draw maps of other animals brains.
No, being interested in BDSM does not mean you had a traumatic childhood.
Some volunteers performed above chance. They weren’t the psychics.
What lies in store for humanity? Theoretical physicist Michio Kaku explains how different life will be for your descendants—and maybe your future self, if the timing works out.
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Habits are easier to hack and change when you understand how they work.
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A large-scale meta-analysis aims to disprove the notion that pornography consumption causes sexual aggression and violence.
Reading code activates a general-purpose brain network, but not language-processing centers.
An excessive focus on past failures can make learning about new situtations more difficult.
New research shows that experiencing an opposite-sex body in virtual reality impacted the subject’s gender identity.
There’s no such thing as a miracle drug.
Scientists watch as mice mouse around an onscreen maze.
A large study shows changes in the brain scans of lonely people in the area involved in imagination, memory, and daydreaming.
A new observational study finds that red wine and cheese have protective effects.
Is the quest to upload human consciousness and ditch our meat puppets the future—or is it fool’s gold?
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There is a lot we don’t know about psychedelics, but what we do know makes them extremely important.
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Neuroscientists and ethicists wants to ensure that neurotechnologies remain benevolent.
There is a neurological link between serotonin levels and the brain’s ability to control impulses and patience levels.
How a controversial study on psychic powers caused a revolution in psychology research.
Psychedelic therapy will become legal in Oregon in 2023. That’s thanks largely to a renaissance of psychedelic research that’s changing attitudes on the substances’ medical potential.
Philosophers have been asking the question for hundreds of years. Now neuroscientists are joining the quest to find out.
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MRI scans show that hunger and loneliness cause cravings in the same area, which suggests socialization is a need.
These tiny fish are helping scientists understand how the human brain processes sound.
It’s never too late to learn a new language. Just don’t count on speaking French like a Parisian.
A new study found similarities between the human brain and the cosmic network of galaxies.
Heard about the phenomenon of FNE, or ‘first night effect’?
The compound found in “magic mushrooms” has significant and fast-acting impact on the brains of rats.
Schools have become captivated by the idea that students must learn a set of generalized critical-thinking skills to flourish in the contemporary world.
Psychologists discover that the way the brain perceives beauty differs between art or faces.
Recent research shows that brain teasers don’t make you smarter and don’t belong in job interviews because they don’t reflect real-world problems.