Neuroscience
Is Consciousness More Like Chess or the Weather?
Our minds seem both physical and intangible. That paradox has gripped this neuroscientist since childhood.
Faulty Memory Is a Feature, Not a Bug
Forgetting and misremembering are the building blocks of creativity and imagination.
Your Brain Is Shaped Like Nobody Else’s
Every brain’s white matter is different—and that might hold the key to better treatments.
What Happens to My Brain on the Psychedelic DMT?
One question for Christopher Timmermann, a cognitive neuroscientist at Imperial College London.
Neuroscience Has a Race Problem
Why Black people are poorly represented in neuroimaging studies—and how science can do better.
The Brain Uses Calculus to Control Fast Movements
Researchers discover that to sharpen its control over precise maneuvers, the brain uses comparisons between control signals—not the signals themselves.
What Does Love Do to Us?
One question for Anna Machin, an evolutionary anthropologist at Oxford University.
What the Tiny Cluster of Brain Cells in My Lab Are Telling Me
I’ve created organoids that, surprisingly, have a lot to say about how the brain works.
The Fine Line Between Life and Not Life
If the brain can’t tell the difference between fiction and reality, what can?
How We Remember Last Weekend
High-frequency oscillations that ripple through our brains may generate memory and conscious experience.











