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If you’re trying to break a bad habit or start a good one, psychologists have some tips.
“It doesn’t erase what happened to you. It just changes the impact it has on your life.”
To what extent will our psychological vulnerabilities shape our interactions with emerging technologies?
This is the latest study to confirm that the brain does not fully mature until at least the third decade of life.
9mins
Your sexual education was probably inadequate. Here’s the information you always needed.
Pick up the paintbrush and get to work.
As Abraham Lincoln famously said, “If you want to test a man’s character, give him power and a plate of cookies.” (Something like that.)
In all mammals, there are two brain pathways for processing information from the eyes: an evolutionarily ancient one and a more modern one.
Depression might be similar to dreaming.
Some scientists think brain organoids could develop a form of consciousness. Others say that's science fiction.
The secret may lie in an old idiom: "Sleep on it."
Ev Fedorenko’s Interesting Brains Project highlights the human brain’s remarkable capacity to adapt, reorganize in the face of early damage.
This is your brain on work.
Studies suggest that meditation can quiet the restless brain.
Only humans can voluntarily conjure new objects and events in our minds.
As improving biotech offers us longevity, we can prepare to live much better as we age.
5mins
Expert Michael Spitzer explains how culture can “tune” your musical taste.
A healthy endocannabinoid system is critical to the human body’s immune functions.
Studies show talk therapy works, but experts disagree about how it does so. Finding the answer could help professionals and patients.
While ticker tape synesthesia was first identified in the 1880s, new research looks at this unique phenomenon — and what it means for language comprehension.
It may be an advantage in some contexts.
Using shaped ultrasound, researchers can 3D print objects in one shot.
Baby mice can regenerate damaged hair cells — and now that we know how they do it, maybe we can, too.
8mins
Your brain on sex, love, and rejection with biological anthropologist Helen Fisher.
If a court needs to know if two trademarks look too similar to each other, perhaps the jury should be given a brain scan.
Human thinking is antiquated.