neuroscience

Latest in neuroscience

No, Human Head Transplants Will Not Be Possible By 2017
Health

No, Human Head Transplants Will Not Be Possible By 2017

By Sarah Fecht

How The Brain Creates Marijuana-Fueled Munchies
Health

How The Brain Creates Marijuana-Fueled Munchies

By Francie Diep

Laser-Controlled And See-Through Brains Get Biomedical Prize
Health

Laser-Controlled And See-Through Brains Get Biomedical Prize

By Francie Diep

Meet A Neurobiologist Who’s Mapping The Human Brain
Health

Meet A Neurobiologist Who’s Mapping The Human Brain

By Breanna Draxler

New Evidence That Baby Chicks Have Mental Number Lines Like Humans Do
Environment

New Evidence That Baby Chicks Have Mental Number Lines Like Humans Do

By Francie Diep

How Head Hits In Football Hurt Brains
Health

How Head Hits In Football Hurt Brains

By Francie Diep

Throwback Thursday: Phrenology, Forks, And How To Live Forever
Science

Throwback Thursday: Phrenology, Forks, And How To Live Forever

By Rafi Letzter

Map-Making In The Brain Wins Nobel Prize In Medicine
Health

Map-Making In The Brain Wins Nobel Prize In Medicine

By Francie Diep

Scientists Send Messages Directly From One Brain To Another
Science

Scientists Send Messages Directly From One Brain To Another

By Francie Diep

Found: The Part Of The Mouse Brain That Motivates Exercise
Science

Found: The Part Of The Mouse Brain That Motivates Exercise

By Francie Diep

Ask Anything: Why Is Picking Up A New Language Easier As A Kid?
Science

Ask Anything: Why Is Picking Up A New Language Easier As A Kid?

By Daniel Engber

How The World Cup’s Brain-Controlled Exoskeleton Works [Video]
Technology

How The World Cup’s Brain-Controlled Exoskeleton Works [Video]

By Popular Science Team

Of Soccer, Science, And The Plastic Nature Of The Brain [Video]
Health

Of Soccer, Science, And The Plastic Nature Of The Brain [Video]

By Popular Science Team

The Neuroscientist Who Wants To Upload Humanity To A Computer
Science

The Neuroscientist Who Wants To Upload Humanity To A Computer

By Adam Piore

Whatever Happened to Francis Crick?
Health

Whatever Happened to Francis Crick?

By Eva Amsen

The Brain Waves For Knowing What You Know
Science

The Brain Waves For Knowing What You Know

By Francie Diep

Neurons
Science

Forgetting Is An Actively Controlled Process In The Brain

By Douglas Main

Monkeys Raised On Omega-3-Rich Diet Have Well-Structured Brains
Health

Monkeys Raised On Omega-3-Rich Diet Have Well-Structured Brains

By Douglas Main

In The Brain, Distances In Space, Time, And Social Relationships Look The Same
Health

In The Brain, Distances In Space, Time, And Social Relationships Look The Same

By Francie Diep

A Mind-Controlled Robotic Hand With A Sense Of Touch
Technology

A Mind-Controlled Robotic Hand With A Sense Of Touch

By Francie Diep

An Indigenous Malaysian Language Describes Smells As Precisely As English Describes Colors
Science

An Indigenous Malaysian Language Describes Smells As Precisely As English Describes Colors

By Francie Diep

Supercomputer Takes 40 Minutes To Create Super-Detailed Model Of 1 Second Of Brain Activity
Technology

Supercomputer Takes 40 Minutes To Create Super-Detailed Model Of 1 Second Of Brain Activity

By Douglas Main

Neurons
Health

The Woman Who Could Write, But Couldn’t Read

By Francie Diep

Neurons
Health

The Woman Who Could Write, But Couldn’t Read

By Francie Diep

This Dog Thought-To-Speech Translator Is Bogus
Environment

This Dog Thought-To-Speech Translator Is Bogus

By Colin Lecher

How Brain Scans Can Lighten Sentences In Murder Cases
Science

How Brain Scans Can Lighten Sentences In Murder Cases

By Francie Diep

Gender Differences Found In Brain Wiring: Insight Or Neurosexism?
Science

Gender Differences Found In Brain Wiring: Insight Or Neurosexism?

By Cordelia Fine, University of Melbourne

How Scientists Could Watch Brain Chemicals Through The Skull
Health

How Scientists Could Watch Brain Chemicals Through The Skull

By Francie Diep

Do Their Teenaged Brains Make Adolescents More Likely To Commit Crimes?
Science

Do Their Teenaged Brains Make Adolescents More Likely To Commit Crimes?

By Shaunacy Ferro

Double The Fun: Monkeys Control Two Virtual Arms With Just Their Thoughts
Health

Double The Fun: Monkeys Control Two Virtual Arms With Just Their Thoughts

By Francie Diep

Can’t Figure Out Art? A Zap To The Brain Will Help You Like It
Science

Can’t Figure Out Art? A Zap To The Brain Will Help You Like It

By Shaunacy Ferro

Einstein May Have Had An Unusually Well-Connected Brain
Science

Einstein May Have Had An Unusually Well-Connected Brain

By Shaunacy Ferro

Neurons
Health

The Government Shutdown Has Halted Obama’s $100M BRAIN Initiative

By Shaunacy Ferro

Erase Bad Memories In Your Sleep
Health

Erase Bad Memories In Your Sleep

By Shaunacy Ferro

Scientists Discover Brain Activity Beyond A Deep Coma
Science

Scientists Discover Brain Activity Beyond A Deep Coma

By Shaunacy Ferro

Neuroscience May Help Us Understand Financial Bubbles
Science

Neuroscience May Help Us Understand Financial Bubbles

By Will de Freitas/ The Conversation

Where Do Dreams Come From?
Science

Where Do Dreams Come From?

By Shaunacy Ferro

Custom Video Game Makes Grandpa As Good At Multitasking As Grandkids
Health

Custom Video Game Makes Grandpa As Good At Multitasking As Grandkids

By Francie Diep

The Confusing Science Of Whether Video Games Are Ruining Your Life
Gear

The Confusing Science Of Whether Video Games Are Ruining Your Life

By Colin Lecher

How Dragonflies Could Help Scientists Build Better Robots
Technology

How Dragonflies Could Help Scientists Build Better Robots

By Shaunacy Ferro

Researchers Successfully Implant Mice With False Memories
Science

Researchers Successfully Implant Mice With False Memories

By Francie Diep

Why Neuromarketing Is A Neuroscam
Science

Why Neuromarketing Is A Neuroscam

By Shaunacy Ferro

The Dark Side Of The Love Hormone Oxytocin
Health

The Dark Side Of The Love Hormone Oxytocin

By Shaunacy Ferro

Health

A Florida Man Woke Up In A Motel Room Speaking Only Swedish. Could It Happen To You?

By Shaunacy Ferro

The Popular Science Guide To Neuroscience
Science

The Popular Science Guide To Neuroscience

By Joey Carmichael

Scientists Regrow Severed Spinal Cords In Rats
Health

Scientists Regrow Severed Spinal Cords In Rats

By Joey Carmichael

Simple Eye Exam Reveals How Much You Like Chocolate
Science

Simple Eye Exam Reveals How Much You Like Chocolate

By Colin Lecher

Sugar Syrup Makes Internal Organs Transparent
Science

Sugar Syrup Makes Internal Organs Transparent

By Francie Diep

Want People To Look Hotter? Get Your Brain Zapped
Science

Want People To Look Hotter? Get Your Brain Zapped

By Colin Lecher

Kids With Autism May Not Enjoy The Sound Of The Human Voice
Health

Kids With Autism May Not Enjoy The Sound Of The Human Voice

By Dan Nosowitz

Amazing Art Inspired By MRIs
Science

Amazing Art Inspired By MRIs

By Colin Lecher

Researchers Unveil A Thought-Controlled Drone
Technology

Researchers Unveil A Thought-Controlled Drone

By Kelsey D. Atherton

A Labrador retriever smelling for explosives with a member of a bomb squad at the trial of the 2015 Boston Marathon bomber
Technology

No machine can beat a dog’s bomb-detecting sniffer

By Josh Dean

Eating Yogurt Does Weird Things To Your Brain
Health

Eating Yogurt Does Weird Things To Your Brain

By Colin Lecher

Who Was H.M.? Inside The Mind Of The Amnesiac Who Revolutionized Neuroscience
Health

Who Was H.M.? Inside The Mind Of The Amnesiac Who Revolutionized Neuroscience

By Suzanne Corkin

Headset Zaps Video Gamers’ Brains For Better Reflexes
Gear

Headset Zaps Video Gamers’ Brains For Better Reflexes

By Colin Lecher

A Harvard Neuroscience Scheme To Change Decisions In Your Brain
Science

A Harvard Neuroscience Scheme To Change Decisions In Your Brain

By Rose Pastore

photos of a mouse brain before and after CLARITY treatment
Science

New Stanford Technique To Make Brains Transparent

By Francie Diep

Do Brain Games Work?
Science

Do Brain Games Work?

By Francie Diep

Scientists Can Pluck Images Out Of Your Dreams
Health

Scientists Can Pluck Images Out Of Your Dreams

By Colin Lecher

Neurons
Health

Obama Launching Massive Initiative To Map The Human Brain

By Colin Lecher

Brain Scan Predicts Whether Convicts Will Re-Offend: Welcome To The Sci-Fi Future
Science

Brain Scan Predicts Whether Convicts Will Re-Offend: Welcome To The Sci-Fi Future

By Dan Nosowitz

Meet The 22-Year-Old Inventor Helping Marketers Read Your Mind
Technology

Meet The 22-Year-Old Inventor Helping Marketers Read Your Mind

By Colin Lecher

The Master Memories of Savants
Science

The Master Memories of Savants

By Adam Piore