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Neuroscience

Reading, That Strange and Uniquely Human Thing

How we evolved to read is a story of one creative species.

December 22, 2020

Outwitting the Grim Reaper

Neuroscientist Daniel Levitin on how to age successfully.

December 16, 2020

Person, Woman, Man, Camera, TV

Is memorizing a string of words a key to what makes the human brain unique?

December 2, 2020

Are We Wired to Be Outside?

A neuroscientist searches for the roots of feeling innately connected to nature.

November 11, 2020

Our Mind-Boggling Sense of Smell

How your brain identifies an aroma from its minute molecular traces is a marvel.

October 14, 2020

Your Brain Makes You a Different Person Every Day

Our brains are wired for new sensations.

October 14, 2020

Reasons Revealed for the Brain’s Elastic Sense of Time

Research finds that the subjective experience of time is linked to learning, thwarted expectations and neural fatigue.

September 25, 2020

The Neurons That Appeared from Nowhere

How an accident led to what could be a medical revolution.

September 2, 2020

The Hard Problem of Breakfast

How does it emerge from bacon and eggs?

August 5, 2020

Your Brain in Love

Anthropologist Helen Fisher tells us what the biology of love is.

July 22, 2020