MIchaelAaron Flicker is the co-author of "Hacking The Human Mind: The Behavioral Science Secrets Behind 17 of the World's ...

The human brain is a fascinating and complex organ that supports numerous sophisticated behaviors and abilities that are ...

Humans possess a remarkable balance between stability and flexibility, enabling them to quickly establish new plans and ...

A selection of science-based books from the year that together shine new light on who we are and why we think and act as we do.

For more than a century, brain imaging has been a story of trade-offs: sharp pictures but slow timing, or fast signals with ...

To better understand human cognition, scientists trained a large language model on 10 million psychology experiment questions. It now answers questions much like we do. By Carl Zimmer Companies like ...

Researchers have used a new human reference genome, which includes many duplicated and repeat sequences left out of the original human genome draft, to identify genes that make the human brain ...

Ty Roush is a breaking news reporter based in New York City. Microplastics have been found in brain tissue above the nose, suggesting a likely passageway for microscopic plastic shards and fibers to ...

This creates a powerful loop: a negative thought enters the brain, and, due to its distressing contents, the brain signals ...