Using smartphone-based tools, researchers find that older adults’ recollections of past events may remain more intact than previously thought.
Rather than catching a yawn on sight, muscles squeezing the uterus could be the trigger for a fetus to catch a yawn from its mother.
A new study shows learning to fly in virtual reality with virtual wings can reshape the brain, making it treat wings more like body parts.
The findings differ from prior work, showing it's tough to disentangle how similarly our brains register imagined thoughts and real sensations.
Cortisol in hair shows sharper differences in chronic stress among Ukraine war refugees than standard questionnaires.
People’s minds sometimes wander to their bodily sensations, which may reduce symptoms of depression and ADHD, a new study suggests.
Instagram and YouTube intentionally designed social media platforms to hook users, a landmark court case found. A pediatrician explains the ruling’s impact.
People quickly normalize extreme weather. Simple visuals highlighting abrupt change could help climate change break through our mental blind spots.
Lucid dreamers who heard puzzle-linked soundtracks while sleeping were more likely to solve those unsolved problems the next day.
Kids with math learning disabilities process number symbols differently than quantities shown as dots — and it shows up in MRIs.
