Brain

05/10/2017 - 12:10

Grey considers aging an engineering problem. The human body is a machine, he told me in the following interview, and like any machine, it... →

11/09/2017 - 14:54

They may have been looking too closely. When it comes to the neuroscience of learning, zeroing in on synapse action misses the forest for... →

15/08/2017 - 19:08

This is the tyranny of sleep. Every animal on the planet is a junkie hooked on its restorative charms. Scientists have shown that if you... →

11/08/2017 - 12:37

In Planet of the Apes, Pierre Boulle’s 1963 novel upon which the films are based, space traveler Ulysse Mérou is stranded on a... →

21/06/2017 - 12:46

But our personalities don’t only show themselves in our long-term success and well-being. They also correlate with the kind of things we... →

12/06/2017 - 16:38

Newton, meanwhile, bragged about the benefits of celibacy. When he died in 1727, he had transformed our understanding of the natural world... →

02/06/2017 - 14:33

And the silence, as they say, is deafening. Sitting in here, it’s as if someone has turned the volume up inside of my head. I helplessly... →

02/06/2017 - 13:29

I believe, as do most people, that citizens of a democracy have a responsibility to remain informed, but I fear this constant deluge of... →

04/04/2017 - 12:54

Our fragile egos are partly to blame. We all want to meet our own expectations of ourselves, and so being critiqued – or even just the... →

02/04/2017 - 15:07

Our shoddy thinking about the brain has deep historical roots, but the invention of computers in the 1940s got us especially confused. For... →

30/03/2017 - 15:54

Despite all the fuss that has been made about the ‘bilingual advantage’, most researchers have moved on from the simplistic ‘is there an... →

29/03/2017 - 16:36

Musk is pushing hard to make Tesla automobiles the first production cars that can operate without any input from a human driver, a process... →

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