ADHD stimulants may improve performance not by sharpening focus, but by making the brain more awake and motivated.

Neuroscientists have been trying to understand how the human brain supports numerous advanced capabilities for centuries. The ...

It seems like every generation thinks they’re smarter than the one before it — and that might just be true if brain size has anything to do with intelligence. A new study has put together a theory ...

The new research, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, suggests that the explanation may not lie in ...

Research finds brain changes in long COVID patients and recovered people compared to never-infected people. What does this ...

Thanks to the guidance of my undergraduate mentor, Prof. Robert B. Tallarico, when I was an undergraduate student I had the great treat of reading The Evolution of Physics: The Growth of Ideas from ...

..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 ...

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. A study published in Science—led by Nicholas Strausfeld, a ...

If humans had never domesticated dogs, they would still be wolves. But around 14,000 years ago, we did, and today we’re left with lovely companions who are forever changed by our interference. A study ...

How can a cellist play like an angel? Why am I engrossed in my book when others struggle with reading? And while we’re at it, can you tell me why my child won’t stop screaming? Neuroscience is ...