Researchers identify the rostral prefrontal cortex as the essential bridge between spontaneous and executive brain networks ...

Startups have developed chips that allow people to control machines with their thoughts. Billionaires are betting these brain ...

It sounds like ordinary classroom advice, but an old line linked to Albert Einstein gives it a sharper edge. “Education is ...

US adults show strong interest in brain health, but very few report knowing a lot about ways to maintain a healthy brain.

Many of us stop learning about the world in a structured way after we’re done with formal education. Because of this, we ...

What’s obvious to you and your hard-working colleagues might be a complete mystery to your family, friends, and strangers on ...

In this age of crisis, technology is pulling us apart. At its best, journalism can bring us together again, writes Guardian editor-in-chief Katharine Viner ...

The idea that everything that exists can be built from the bottom up has long held sway among physicists. Now, a new kind of ...

The Trump administration seems determined to reduce scientific testing on animals. Just how serious is it about its new pet ...

Research suggests that crying is not a sign of weakness, but one of the most sophisticated social technologies in the natural world.

Attention shapes conflict by filtering what each person notices and responds to. Expectations and mood can colour how we ...

Quote of the by Nikola Tesla, “When intuition outruns discipline, the mind begins to....Nikola Tesla filed 300 patents across his lifetime. He worked 18-hour days. He ran every experiment in his mind ...