Animals We’ve finally discovered how birds can sleep and fly at the same time without crashing August 4, 2016
Mind & Brain Scientists quantify human intelligence for first time ever using MRI scans July 22, 2016
Biology Getting blackout drunk: how alcohol can leave you with no memory of the night before July 18, 2016 - Updated on April 30, 2023
Mind & Brain These people felt what it’s like to be invisible, and the implications could be massive for psychotherapy June 17, 2016
Mind & Brain Equation suggests other people’s fortunes affects our happiness, and inequality makes us very unhappy June 16, 2016
Mind & Brain Teenage boys who show empathy attract 1.8 more girlfriends than boys who don’t June 14, 2016
Mind & Brain This algorithm reconstructs the faces of people you see by reading your mind June 14, 2016 - Updated on July 19, 2023
Anthropology Humans got smarter to care for needy infants, making them more helpless in the process May 26, 2016 - Updated on March 4, 2017
Mathematics If you’re left-handed, you may be a bit better at math May 9, 2016 - Updated on July 27, 2019
Mind & Brain ‘Cool’ light improves learning and academic performance. ‘Yellow light’ better for relaxing April 27, 2016 - Updated on April 19, 2019
Health Can’t get any rest when sleeping in a new place? It’s just your brain keeping you safe April 22, 2016
Biology Georgetown University team found you can literally zap creativity into your brain April 19, 2016 - Updated on April 20, 2016
Health For the first time in history, researchers restore voluntary finger movement for a paralyzed man April 14, 2016
Mind & Brain The brain on LSD is like that of a baby: brain area connections become one April 12, 2016
Mind & Brain Would you be willing to take an electric shock in the name of curiosity? Science says yes, several actually April 9, 2016 - Updated on April 10, 2016
Mind & Brain Heavy marijuana users process stressful stimuli similarly to those with an anxiety disorder March 17, 2016 - Updated on March 30, 2017
Home science The Crunch Effect — how listening to your chewing can help you lose weight March 16, 2016
Mind & Brain Anxiety alters perception by attaching emotional experience to neutral cues March 8, 2016
Health Getting tasered impairs cognition, and might violate “right to remain silent” February 10, 2016 - Updated on February 11, 2016
Biology Being a morning person might be coded in your genes February 3, 2016 - Updated on November 16, 2020