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Neuroscience

Is Consciousness More Like Chess or the Weather?

Our minds seem both physical and intangible. That paradox has gripped this neuroscientist since childhood.

May 18, 2023

Faulty Memory Is a Feature, Not a Bug

Forgetting and misremembering are the building blocks of creativity and imagination.

May 2, 2023

Your Brain Is Shaped Like Nobody Else’s

Every brain’s white matter is different—and that might hold the key to better treatments.

April 19, 2023

What Happens to My Brain on the Psychedelic DMT?

One question for Christopher Timmermann, a cognitive neuroscientist at Imperial College London.

March 20, 2023

Neuroscience Has a Race Problem

Why Black people are poorly represented in neuroimaging studies—and how science can do better.

February 15, 2023

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.

January 4, 2023

What Does Love Do to Us?

One question for Anna Machin, an evolutionary anthropologist at Oxford University.

December 12, 2022

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.

November 15, 2022

Why Your Brain Isn’t Into the Future

What you can’t imagine clearly, you value less.

November 4, 2022

The Fine Line Between Life and Not Life

If the brain can’t tell the difference between fiction and reality, what can?

October 26, 2022

The Afterlife Is in Our Heads

The real meaning of near-death experiences.

September 28, 2022

How We Remember Last Weekend

High-frequency oscillations that ripple through our brains may generate memory and conscious experience.

September 28, 2022