neuroscience
Study finds that a colony’s exposure to pesticides impairs offspring.
Studies have shown that dominant sexual activity can often boost your work ethic several days after a sexual experience.
There are scientifically proven ways you can improve your self-esteem, right now.
Is obsessive shopping a compulsion, an addiction, or both?
A study reveals these brains exhibit less cortical surface area and gray matter.
Will Storr has written a masterful guide to writing with “The Science of Storytelling.”
Research dating back to the 1950s explains why the foot fetish makes total sense.
The bonding experience is promoted by important neurological changes.
A new study finds it may take decades or even a whole lifetime to appear.
It doesn’t matter what you’re reading, as long as you’re reading.
Ready to become a tech wizard? Creation Crate’s electronic projects are delivered to your door with everything you need to start building and learning.
Air pollution poses “a significant risk to brain development” according to researchers.
A new study reminds us that physical and emotional pain are not far apart.
Healing from a break-up should be taken as seriously as healing from a broken arm, says psychiatrist Dr. Guy Winch.
Being kind to others positively impacts your physical and mental health, according to this groundbreaking research by Stanford professor Dr. James Doty.
Your cat thinks your taste stinks. Also that you’re mingy with the laser pointer.
Love triggers the same regions of your brain as cocaine addiction.
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Scientists exploring human neurons directly learn some remarkable things.
It doesn’t matter where you’re from — music is an emotional powerhouse.
An immune molecule sometimes produced during infection can influence the social behavior of mice.
What areas of the brain are activated when you feel a cosmic connection with someone?
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In his new book, The Deep History of Ourselves, Joseph LeDoux explains where we come from.
Next up on the top 10 countdown, Big Think’s sixth most popular video illustrates the mental fireworks of a psychedelic experience.
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A new study suggests that a device’s night mode may damage sleep hygiene even more.
Expert opinions matter, especially when their knowledge is continuously refined by critical analysis.
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Do we suffer from birth anxiety like we suffer from death anxiety?
Bill Bryson’s new book, “The Body: A Guide For Occupants,” provides important (and funny) lessons in anatomy, neuroscience, physiology, biology, and more.
The finding represents one of the first times we have observed how the human brain clears out its waste products.
A new study says curiosity and creativity are computational errors.
Groundbreaking neurological research on songbirds provides insight on human learned behavior and speech.