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We still have so much to learn about the brain. Keep up with the latest news, from psychology to machine learning.

Language doesn’t perfectly describe consciousness. Can math?

By Oshan Jarow

Maybe, just maybe, psychedelics are the “master key” for unlocking everything from blindness to stroke to anorexia

By Sigal Samuel

A new approach to measuring what’s going on in our minds

By Oshan Jarow

Why psychedelics produce some of the most meaningful experiences in people’s lives

By Oshan Jarow

What our brain chemistry says about free will

By Sean Illing

Meditation is more than either stress relief or enlightenment

By Oshan Jarow

How the pandemic messed with our perception of time

By Oshan Jarow

What can caged lab monkeys tell us about free human beings?

By Garet Lahvis

A new era for Alzheimer’s treatment begins

By Dylan Scott

Why scientists haven’t cracked consciousness

By Oshan Jarow

A key to consciousness could lie in “perceptual diversity”

By Oshan Jarow

The FDA could soon approve a new Alzheimer’s drug. Does this one actually work?

By Dylan Scott

Virtual reality is reality, too

By Sean Illing

22 things we think will happen in 2022

By Dylan Matthews, Kelsey Piper, and 1 more

22 predictions we made in 2021, and the 13 we got right

By Dylan Matthews, Sigal Samuel, and 1 more

How technology has inspired neuroscientists to reimagine the brain

By Byrd Pinkerton

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The harrowing new reality for Alzheimer’s patients

Alzheimer’s patients and families live in a cloud of uncertainty. It’s about to get worse.

By Dylan Scott

The new Alzheimer’s drug is the first of its kind. Will it be the last?

By Dylan Scott

Giving thanks may make your brain more altruistic

By Sigal Samuel

Why it’s so hard to read a book right now, explained by a neuroscientist

By Constance Grady

Why Buddhism is true

By Sean Illing

Are we morally obligated to meditate?

By Sigal Samuel

Brain-reading tech is coming. The law is not ready to protect us.

By Sigal Samuel

Dopamine fasting is Silicon Valley’s hot new trend. Is it backed by science?

By Sigal Samuel

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The brutal mirror: what the psychedelic drug ayahuasca showed me about my life

By Sean Illing

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The mind, explained

A guide to help you better understand your brain.

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Facebook is building tech to read your mind. The ethical implications are staggering.

By Sigal Samuel

Elon Musk reveals his plan to link your brain to your smartphone

By Sigal Samuel

How your brain invents morality

By Sigal Samuel

In Spain, prisoners’ brains are being electrically stimulated in the name of science

By Sigal Samuel

How the West became a self-obsessed culture

By Sean Illing

Cirque du Soleil and the neuroscience of awe

By Constance Grady

Why psychedelic drugs could transform how we treat depression and mental illness

By Sean Illing

A human head transplant would be reckless and ghastly. It’s time to talk about it.

By Paul Root Wolpe

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This is what love does to your brain

By Sean Illing

Handstands, explained

By Eliza Barclay

A Stanford scientist on the biology of human evil

By Sean Illing

Brain activity is too complicated for humans to decipher. Machines can decode it for us.

By Brian Resnick

Procrastination is bad for your health

By Susannah Locke

A psychologist explains why materialism is making you unhappy

By Susannah Locke

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