As AI rapidly advances and ethical debates intensify, scientists contend that understanding consciousness has become more urgent than ever. As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to advance ...

A new study revealed music lovers over 70 have a 39% lower dementia risk and playing instruments cuts their risk by 35%, ...

In this week's column, Dennis Marek writes there are certainly issues associated with getting older, but it sure beats the alternative.

Constant change fuels burnout at work. Understanding how curiosity and the brain’s chemistry interact can help people adapt ...

For centuries, people have blamed the full moon for stirring up madness. Folklore suggested that its glow could spark mania in bipolar disorder, provoke seizures in people with epilepsy or trigger ...

Findings link genetic variation, through circuit assembly, to animal behavior, paving the way to explore how developmental ...

The things of nightmares have arrived in the Inland Northwest. Thankfully, those who study them were already lying in wait. All across Spokane this week, Jason Voorhees terrorized teen campers, a ...

Spaceflight rewires the human body. Muscles shrink, bones thin and fluids shift towards the brain – but these changes may ...

The claim is that all these vices overstimulate the brain’s dopamine system, causing it to become ”less responsive” and leaving people disillusioned and burnt out. A few weeks of abstinence, ...

As AI and brain technologies develop at a breathtaking speed, scientists are warning that one of the oldest and most ...

The New Scientist Book Club has various issues with Masud Husain's prize-winning popular science book about neurology ...