New research has charted the major developmental stages in the brain’s wiring—from early-life pruning to late-life network ...

From this point forward, the brain enters its longest and most stable epoch: adulthood, lasting over three decades. Brain ...

THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. The number of people who read for fun appears to be steadily dropping. Fifty percent of UK adults say they don’t ...

So you are about to read this article. What unseen assumptions will shape the way you read these words? Let’s find out how ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to [email protected]. “Do we need to read, or can we just get ...

Computer programming powers modern society and enabled the artificial intelligence revolution, but little is known about how our brains learn this essential skill. To help answer that question, Johns ...

Here are three words: pine, crab, sauce. There’s a fourth word that combines with each of the others to create another common word. What is it? When the answer finally comes to you, it’ll likely feel ...

What does forgiveness look like in the brain? As a neuroscientist, I am always looking for the biological underpinnings of mental processes—not as an effort to distill mystery into molecules, but to ...

Most people know which foods to avoid for a healthy heart. Yet, do you often think about the foods you eat and how they ...