It’s election season, so it's hard to avoid the television and social media ads that are mostly a mixture of lies and half-truths by politicians who want us to vote for them. Some politicians, as well ...

In the middle of the night, the world can sometimes feel like a dark place. Under the cover of darkness, negative thoughts have a way of drifting through your mind, and as you lie awake, staring at ...

Though it's now clear humans continue to grow new brain cells throughout their entire lives, debate persists over whether this applies to specific areas involved with memory. Previous studies have ...

A new study is “a bit of a counterweight to the endless hyperbole about how incredibly complex and powerful the human brain is,” one researcher said. By Carl Zimmer In our digital age, few things are ...