Researchers tracked brain activity across 24 hours, showing how shifting neural control centers drive fatigue and how sleep ...

Psilocybin is a psychedelic drug with promising clinical applications for treating mood disorders and substance abuse ...

We conclude that brain states are shaped by local circuit mechanisms, large-scale connectivity and neuromodulation. A unified multiscale theory of cortical dynamics is relevant not only for ...

Large language models, often called LLMs, usually help write emails, answer questions, and summarize documents. A new ...

From bonobos and rats to tickling robots, research is finally cracking the secrets of why we’re ticklish, and what that reveals about our brains ...

A groundbreaking study challenges the traditional timeline of maturity, suggesting our cognitive wiring continues to evolve ...

Lynne Peeples is a science journalist in Seattle, Washington. Near the end of his first series of chess matches against IBM’s Deep Blue computer in 1996, the Russian grandmaster Garry Kasparov ...

Humans don’t just recognize each other’s voices—our brains also light up for the calls of chimpanzees, hinting at ancient communication roots shared with our closest primate relatives. Researchers ...

Idorsia’s dual orexin receptor antagonist, the first and only drug of its kind approved in Europe for the treatment of ...

New research finds that brain development is not linear. There are distinct phases with unique characteristics.

Blinking is a human reflex most often performed without thinking, like breathing. Although research on blinking is usually ...

Blinking is a human reflex most often performed without thinking, like breathing. Although research on blinking is usually ...