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Neuroscience

Falling Asleep Is More Like Plunging Off a Cliff Than We Thought

It’s not the gradual slip into darkness that scientists assumed

November 13, 2025

A Trip Around Our Surprisingly Psychedelic Planet

Inside Earth’s most hallucinatory ecosystems

November 12, 2025

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

November 11, 2025

The Brain’s Hidden Drain

Newly discovered vessels may be key to flushing waste away from our brains

November 7, 2025

What Is Your Brain Doing on Psychedelics?

Something is happening here, but neuroscientists don’t know what it is

October 20, 2025

The Nautilus Reading List About the Brain

These 10 books reveal how the brain is wider than the sky

August 29, 2025

How Phantom Limb Tricks Us

New maps of the brain may explain why amputees feel pain in the void

August 26, 2025

What We Still Get Wrong About Psychopaths

Many scientists portray psychopathy as a brain disorder, despite a lack of evidence

Does Anybody Really Know What Time Is?

Yes, your brain does. It created it.

July 8, 2025

Is It Cake? How Our Brain Deciphers Materials

Neuroscientists are discovering how this basic ability, essential to our survival, works

July 3, 2025

The Science of Tripping Comes to Town

The many challenges of studying psychedelics