Neuroscience is often used to explain why early adulthood feels unstable, but the science itself is more complex than popular wisdom suggests. Brain development doesn’t end at a single age; instead, ...

Stanford scientists have solved a long-standing challenge in growing brain organoids by using a simple food additive to keep them from sticking together. The breakthrough enables the production of ...

"We've always known that our big brains and nimble fingers set us apart, but now we can see they didn't evolve separately," explained Joanna Baker, lead author on the study. "As our ancestors became ...

What if a single click could cost you half a million dollars? For one blockchain developer, this nightmare became a reality when a seemingly harmless coding extension in Cursor IDE turned out to be a ...

In an experiment last year at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, more than fifty students from universities around Boston were split into three groups and asked to write SAT-style essays in ...

When someone hurts us, we might feel wounded or sad. We might feel angry and defensive. But sometimes those feelings turn into something more dangerous: a desire for revenge. Wanting to right a ...

What the heart wants, the brain wants too. A nutrient-rich diet is crucial for heart, vascular and brain health, as about 25% of our blood supply goes to our brain. Eating foods high in saturated fats ...

Everyone dies, but what actually transpires during that process is a deep mystery that scientists are only beginning to seriously investigate. Increasingly, near-death experiences, or NDEs, are part ...