The Allen Institute in Seattle says scientists have now learned enough about how the brain works to start fixing it when it ...

How a brain's anatomical structure relates to its function is one of the most important questions in neuroscience. It explores how physical components, such as neurons and their connections, give rise ...

Researchers increasingly believe your 40s, 50s and 60s represent a critical window for protecting cognitive health later in ...

Science says your brain peaks every 90 minutes. Here’s what the research says about building a deep work routine that works ...

The brain is our body’s command center, the control tower for our body and mind—no wonder it’s the focus of intense research across the globe, with so much interest in figuring out the mysteries of ...

In a first, a large, international team led by multiple labs at Harvard Medical School and Princeton University has published ...

Every thought, memory, and flicker of awareness a person experiences runs on roughly 20 watts of power, about the same draw ...

Despite all the attention on technologies that reduce the hands-on role of humans at work — such as self-driving vehicles, robot workers, artificial intelligence, and so on — researchers in the field ...

The traditional boundaries between professional and personal life are increasingly blurred. The idea of work-life balance — where work and personal time are neatly divided — has given way to a more ...

We grew up being told, in one way or another, that talking to yourself is what lonely people do. Or stressed people. Or your ...