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An expert’s take on how to ace your exams through mindfulness.

This unsettling new understanding of vegetative patients raises medical ethics issues.

Exploring the idea that objects we perceive in everyday life do not reflect objective reality.

Mirror neurons bounce smiles from one person to the next.

They experience reality differently than we do.

Gail Bradbrook, co-founder of Extinction Rebellion, called for a mass psychedelic act of civil disobedience in protest of drug criminalization.

From computer hacking to biohacking, Dave Asprey has embarked on a quest to reverse the aging process.

A steady timing reference is required by one of the leading theories of neuronal communication.

We think of self-actualization as a lofty goal, but research suggests it may just be another way of obeying our biological programming.

Check out these mysterious optical illusions that affect our visual perception.

Can nicotine keep Alzheimer’s at bay? Dave Asprey explains how natural drugs can create super humans.

Cognitive psychologist Donald Hoffman hypothesizes we evolved to experience a collective delusion — not objective reality.

If ever there was a food that holds a lesson for building bridges in a fractured America, it’s the cabbage roll.

Part Two of an interview with Dr. John Ratey.

Why the effects of aging are detrimental to being the U.S. president.

Light controls your body clock. Hack it to get better sleep.

Someday we’ll beam to the moon for afternoon tea, and be back in New York for dinner.

What you eat — and when — can make you superhuman.

Want to learn better? Here’s a lesson from cognitive psychology.

Autism is a widely misunderstood condition surrounded by falsehoods, half-truths, and cultural assumptions.

Ask very silly questions to spur very serious innovation.

Most diseases don’t differ depending on where you’re from. Schizophrenia, however, is heavily dependent on your culture.

“A monkey has been able to control a computer with its brain,” Musk said, referring to tests of the device.

Want to be smarter than you were yesterday? Learn to have better conversations using these 3 design principles.

The Harvard Medical School’s clinical professor of psychiatry wrote the book on the topic.

We don’t perceive time in an objective fashion; instead, the brain interprets time in a complex and amorphous way.

Here’s what neuroscience and psychology have to say about how people humanize and dehumanize one another.

Soon we’ll be able to blink and instantly go online via computer chips attached to our eyes.

Brain plasticity. Mindful superpowers. Pokémon invading our grey matter. Scientists have only begun to learn about the human brain.

There are a few different theories out there, but the parieto-frontal integration theory, or P-FIT, appears to give us the best model of the neuroscience of intelligence.