For centuries, people have turned to prayer for comfort, guidance, healing, and connection with God. While prayer has long ...

From the age of legal adulthood to the concept of "profound autism", policy-makers are turning to neuroscience to help shape laws and policies, but the science simply isn't ready ...

Australian researchers have uncovered what happens behind the scenes in our brain when we're faced with a predictable ...

Researchers discover rotating spiral brain waves that travel across cortical networks, acting as a space-and-time clock for ...

Dancing fluidly with another involves social coordination. This skill entails aligning movements with others while also processing dynamic sensory information, like sounds and visuals. In a new ...

A fundamental goal of research in neuroscience is to uncover the causal structure of the brain. This focus on causation makes sense, because causal information can provide explanations of brain ...

Unravelling how the billions of interacting neurons in the human brain conjure consciousness is one of the greatest challenges in twenty-first-century science. Over the past decade, large, well-funded ...

Everyone knows the person who, behind the wheel, is a different animal — they lean on the horn, swear at the merge, narrate ...

Co-founder and CEO Axel Bouchon, a veteran biochemist and neuroscientist who previously worked in the pharmaceutical industry, wrote a book about what he sees as capitalism’s negative impact on ...

Modern neuroscience views dreaming not as a random flicker of images, but as part of a nightly system that helps the brain ...

All the controversies around this year’s tournament don’t change a simple scientific fact: watching the World Cup is great ...