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Neuroscience
Walter Pitts rose from the streets to MIT, but couldn’t escape himself.
Brain activity may be more like "ripples in a pond" rather than signals sent on a telecommunications network.
Neuroscientist and author Bobby Azarian explores the idea that the Universe is a self-organizing system that evolves and learns.
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Plato and Carl Sagan were wrong about the human brain, says a top neuroscientist.
“Why are you unhappy? Because 99.9 percent of everything you think, and of everything you do, is for yourself — and there isn’t one.”
John Templeton Foundation
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Johns Hopkins professor Dr. Matthew Johnson answers 24 huge questions about psychedelics.
Numerous videos online show that squid undergo a dramatic color-changing effect after being stunned or killed.
A team of scientists has warned that marketers seek to advertise in our dreams. Will our sleep be commercialized against our wishes?
A new study from Finland suggests that we all process the behavior of others using the same neural networks.
Spiritual experiences can be explained in terms of a highly evolved brain. But they also can be extremely meaningful.
John Templeton Foundation
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You’ve heard about your "lizard brain." But what about the other two?
John Templeton Foundation
Is blood the key to anti-aging, or just another lucrative biotech opportunity?
Brain-computer interfaces could enable people with locked-in syndrome and other conditions to "speak."
Evolutionary pressures drove the formation of tribes who encoded their values in myths and symbols. Was this cooperation cursed?
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No, emotions don’t happen TO you. Here’s what happens instead.
Would you confess your crimes to a skeleton with "an unnatural ghastly glow"? One inventor thought you would.
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Ancient societies revered dreams. Modern science tells us why.
Memory, responsibility, and mental maturity have long been difficult to describe objectively, but neuroscientists are starting to detect patterns. Coming soon to a courtroom near you?
The dying brain experiences a surge of electrical activity. Could this help explain the mysterious phenomena of near-death experiences?
Emotion dysregulation has been linked to unhealthy risk-taking, relationship challenges, and negative physical health outcomes.
A recently identified stage of sleep common to narcoleptics is a fertile source of creativity.
Meditation can put you in a wiser relationship with life.
Desperate times call for desperate measures.
Thomas Edison was on to something...
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Your chronological age and your biological age aren’t the same thing. This ex-Yale professor explains how to tell the difference.
Neuroscience is beginning to provide clues about the emergence of human consciousness.
John Templeton Foundation
The hallucinations that characterize schizophrenia may be due to a "reality threshold" that is lower than it should be.
Intelligence is not fixed but fluid. A growth mindset allows our brains to flourish while lowering our stress levels.
A recent study highlights the astounding adaptability of the human brain.