Neuroscience
Falling Asleep Is More Like Plunging Off a Cliff Than We Thought
It’s not the gradual slip into darkness that scientists assumed
A Trip Around Our Surprisingly Psychedelic Planet
Inside Earth’s most hallucinatory ecosystems
He Erased Memory in Mice. Then Thought About Erasing His Own
Sunk in grief and alcoholism, this neuroscientist discovered the power of memory in himself
The Brain’s Hidden Drain
Newly discovered vessels may be key to flushing waste away from our brains
What Is Your Brain Doing on Psychedelics?
Something is happening here, but neuroscientists don’t know what it is
The Nautilus Reading List About the Brain
These 10 books reveal how the brain is wider than the sky
How Phantom Limb Tricks Us
New maps of the brain may explain why amputees feel pain in the void
What We Still Get Wrong About Psychopaths
Many scientists portray psychopathy as a brain disorder, despite a lack of evidence
Is It Cake? How Our Brain Deciphers Materials
Neuroscientists are discovering how this basic ability, essential to our survival, works











