We often talk about science as if it were a purely logical enterprise. Yet, the way we ask questions—and even the kind of ...

..it seems that a way to make sense of the "execessive risk taking" during the recent financial meltdown is simply mass individual addictive behavior around money - and likely technological ...

By the usual logic of evolution, menopause shouldn’t really exist. Even our closest relatives, chimpanzees, experience it ...

Scientists discovered that lowering a specific molecule helps microglia switch into a protective state that quiets brain ...

Professor of Human Development and Family Sciences, University of Connecticut Cognitive psychology and neuroscience studies have found that the exact opposite is often true when it comes to politics: ...

According to a new study, fossils of a tiny sea creature with a delicately preserved nervous system solve a century-old debate over how the brain evolved in arthropods, the most species-rich group in ...

The TikTokification of social media has created a landscape that caters to shorter videos, which is likely having a profound effect on the attention spans of some of our most impressionable ...

Nearly 10 years after a brain injury left a firefighter virtually mute, he suddenly started talking to his wife and sons last weekend. NEW YORK (AP) -- Nearly 10 years after a brain injury left a ...

Fossils of a tiny sea creature that died more than half a billion years ago may compel a science textbook rewrite of how brains evolved. "To our knowledge, this is the oldest fossilized brain we know ...