Neuroscience

Alex Honnold doesn’t experience fear like the rest of us.

We may complain about a defining feature of the city, but we also feed off it.

Our sense of smell may have evolved to detect danger, not beauty.

What I learned trying to keep up with my 4-year-old daughter at the royal game.

Tantalizing evidence suggests that brain activity shifts to increase wisdom as we age.

With three times as many neurons, why doesn’t the elephant brain outperform ours?

The neocortex is argued to be the seat of cognition, but crows don't have one.

Technology hasn’t diminished the social quality of listening to music.

From ecstasy to withdrawal, the lover resembles an addict.