Cats may have a reputation for independence, but emerging research suggests we share a unique connection with them – fuelled by brain chemistry. The main chemical involved is oxytocin, often called ...

Is consciousness something the brain produces, or is it woven into the fabric of reality itself? Renowned neuroscientist Christof Koch is challenging long-held scientific assumptions by confronting ...

While that message has been spread on social media, researchers are just beginning to understand how the devices affect the mind Amber X. Chen | AAAS Mass Media Fellow Key takeaways: Smartphone use ...

If you’ve been building consumer hardware for any real amount of time, you know the pattern. Most of these shifts start the same way. The sensor exists, but it’s stuck in clinical settings where it’s ...

Scientists looked at a wide range of brain scans to determine how consciousness gets so trippy on mind-altering drugs. A new analysis broadens our understanding of psychedelics, such as the psilocybin ...

Paramount Pictures made a lot of money in the first half of the 1990s by bringing TV characters to bigger screens: The Addams Family and Wayne’s World became massive surprise hits, spawning sequels, ...

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“Fear can freeze us in place, push us to fight or flee, or even drive us to seek comfort in others,” said Ashley Reno, Psy.D., associate professor and chief psychologist in the University of Alabama ...

You can see it coming in right there, that little spot,” says neuroscientist and engineer Laura Lewis. A remarkably bright pulsing dot has appeared on the monitor in front of us. We are watching, in ...

The human brain has 86 billion neurons connected by roughly 100 trillion synapses, making it one of the most complex objects in the known universe. Each year neuroscientists make fascinating, ...

A large, long-term study found that playing a brain training video game may help protect the brain against dementia for decades. Experts say the findings are the strongest evidence yet that cognitive ...