Humans have the remarkable ability to remember the same person or object in completely different situations. We can easily ...

A Taoist parable is finding new life on TikTok, where creators are touting the “Empty Boat Theory” as a simple “brain hack” for dealing with anger and self-centered thinking. The concept, imagining ...

A Chinese team reported a breakthrough in brain-computer interface technology in Beijing. Researchers used implanted electrodes to precisely localize deep-seated brain tumor boundaries. The trial ...

On a recent quiet weekday morning in Manhattan, I attempted to obtain a Labubu, the cutesy monster doll that has become the biggest international toy fad since Beanie Babies in the late nineties.

Our brains may work best when teetering on the edge of chaos. A new theory suggests that criticality a sweet spot between order and randomness is the secret to learning, memory, and adaptability. When ...

In a new paper with implications for preventing Alzheimer's disease and other neurological disorders, Keith Hengen, an associate professor of biology in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St.

Of all the abductions, this one is different.

With the rise of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., brain worms have gotten a bad rap. A year ago, the long-time anti-vaccine advocate and current US health secretary famously told The New York Times that a ...

Co-authored by Jessica Del Pozo, Ph.D., and Sung Lee, M.D. For this article, I teamed up with one of the authors of the paper (“The jeong and haan of Vincent van Gogh: neuropeptides of bondedness and ...