Hollywood Should Give Brain Science a Star Turn
Movies and TV shows frequently depict physical and biological sciences well, but often depict psychological and brain sciences poorly. Here’s why, and what we can do about it
Hollywood Should Give Brain Science a Star Turn
Movies and TV shows frequently depict physical and biological sciences well, but often depict psychological and brain sciences poorly. Here’s why, and what we can do about it
Quiet! Our Loud World Is Making Us Sick
Experts describe ways to turn down the volume, from earbuds to smartphone apps that detect harmful noise levels
Scientists Discover Extensive Brain-Wave Patterns
Certain brain layers specialize in particular waves—which might aid understanding of neuropsychiatric disorders
How Air Pollution Damages the Brain
The new science of "exposomics" shows how air pollution contributes to Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, bipolar disorder and other brain diseases
A Random Influx of DNA from a Virus Helped Vertebrates Become So Stunningly Successful
Insertion of genetic material from a virus into the genome of a vertebrate ancestor enabled the lightning-quick electrical impulses that give animals with backbones their smarts
Think Seeing Is Believing? Think Again
We think that what we see represents stone-cold reality. Science has found out how wrong we can be.
My Synesthesia Transforms Speech into Text I ‘See’ in My Head
From the time I learned to read, I have experienced a form of mental closed-captioning called ticker-tape synesthesia
How Animal Brains Tell Friends from Strangers
A small section of the mouse brain’s hippocampus uses specific neural codes to denote social familiarity and identity
Why Some Songs Make Everyone Want to Dance
A syncopated rhythm may prompt our brain to find the beat
Babies Smell Sweet, but Teenagers Stink. Is Evolution the Explanation?
Carboxylic acids make teens give off a pungent olfactory mix redolent of cheese, plum and even goats
A ‘Havana Syndrome’ Investigation in Congress Rests on Politics, Not Science
Lawmakers should look in the mirror if they want answers to who hyped dubious reports of Havana syndrome. Instead they are investigating the spy agencies telling them the truth about the mystery
A Study in Primates Reveals How the Brain Encodes Complex Social Interactions
The research tracks, at the level of individual neurons, what happens when a monkey hangs out with other monkeys. It even found a possible neural code for empathy