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Neuroscience

How We Decide Where to Go

Neuroscientists discover a mechanism for brain-wide communication when selecting a route toward a destination.

Seeing Sounds

Researchers uncover molecular clues for synesthesia.

The Ethics of Consciousness Hunting

How fMRI has become an ethical obligation.

September 5, 2018

How Women Came to Dominate Neuroendocrinology

A scientific field founded by men is now mostly female.

August 13, 2018

The Neurology of Flow States

Why time vanishes when you’re jamming.

June 4, 2018

Why Some Sports Fans Have More Fun

How mirror neurons affect the experience of fandom.

April 23, 2018

Why Is the Human Brain So Efficient?

How massive parallelism lifts the brain’s performance above that of AI.

April 3, 2018

How the Fencing Reflex Connects Life and Death

Primitive reflexes shepherd us into this world, and out.

April 3, 2018

Brains Cling to Old Habits When Learning New Tricks

Using a brain-computer interface, scientists are beginning to learn why learning is hard.

March 27, 2018

The Surprising Relativism of the Brain’s GPS

How new data is transforming our understanding of place cells.

March 20, 2018