Blue light, or light that exists at wavelengths between 380 and 500 nanometers, has a complicated reputation. The sun gives off blue ligh...

"It's the healthiest thing I can think of to drink," says Dr. Christopher Ochner, nutrition research scientist at Icahn School of Medicin...

It turns out your teachers were being a little hasty when they said there are only five senses. For instance, there’s proprioception, whi...

Some amount of fear is healthy. As a 2015 episode of NPR’s Invisibilia illustrates, that rare person born with no fear suffers some uniqu...

For parents of young children hoping to boost their offspring’s language skills, the solution might be simpler than you think: talk to th...

StartFragment What makes the human brain so, well, human? It’s not purely a matter of size—from studying the cranial cavities of Neandert...

What do Babe Ruth, Marie Curie, David Bowie, Barack Obama, and Oprah have in common, other than fame? No, that’s not the start of a riddl...

In a fair and just world, losing a limb would be the end of feeling any discomfort in that particular region. For one thing, surely at th...

How much of our social behavior is hard-wired and how much is learned? It’s a huge question. The nature vs nurture debate has raged for c...

What happens to the brain during meditation? When researcher Wendy Hasenkamp was at Emory University, she and her team ran experiments on...

StartFragment In February’s blog post, "How your Brain is Like an Ant Colony", we discussed how neural networks follow the concept of eme...

Even if you from time to time think about your neurons, those little chemical-electrical switches that dictate your mental and physical a...

What is fear made of? In his book Self Comes to Mind, Antonio Demasio describes emotions as complex, largely automated neural programs of...

StartFragment Suicide: the word itself is sobering. In the U.S., there are 38,000 suicides a year. This makes it one of the top ten cause...

The human brain is one of the true wonders of the world; after all, it contained the source material for building each of the seven famou...

One thing's for sure: Americans love their coffee. According to the National Coffee Association, we drink an average of 3.1 cups a day an...

Idleness is the Devil's workshop, or so the saying goes. Blame it on our Puritan origins if you like, but Americans take fewer vacation d...

Have you ever wondered how your brain and your smartphone's operating systems compare? After all, people commonly draw analogies between ...

Imagine waking up in a hospital room, unable to move. You can hear the doctor telling someone that they're not sure what level of brain f...

Susan Polgar is considered a chess genius; at 21, she was the first woman in the world to become a Grandmaster. Her chess skills are so e...