neuroscience

The compound found in "magic mushrooms" has significant and fast-acting impact on the brains of rats.

The "lone genius" often gets the credit for big ideas, but real-world innovation is a team sport.

A team of astrophysicists uses AI to figure out which clusters of stars merged to become our galaxy.

At the heart of the job is a cognitive ability called 'situational awareness' that involves 'the continuous extraction of environmental information [and the] integration of this information with prior knowledge to form a coherent mental picture'.

Robots are stepping in to fill essential roles, such as sanitizing warehouses and hospitals, ferrying test samples to laboratories, and serving as telemedicine avatars.

The prospect of a Christmas without large-scale celebrations is preying on minds.

Psychologists discover that the way the brain perceives beauty differs between art or faces.

Earth's fate and the devastation of the natural world were recently put under the microscope with the release of Sir David Attenborough's Netflix documentary A Life On Our Planet.

Elon Musk says his brain-implant firm Neuralink will show off a “working device” at a highly anticipated Friday event. Musk announced the live demonstration on Twitter early Wednesday, apparently referring to the brain-machine interface — a device that would link human brains to computers — that Neuralink has been developing since it launched in 2017. …