As a parent, a spouse, and someone who works full time at my job and pretty much full time at keeping a household running, I often feel like I have 20 tabs open in my brain at once. There are always ...

“The holy grail of training your brain to work out is to make it a part of your ‘self’, your identity. The ‘story of me’, the self-narrative, lives in your pre-frontal cortex. Workout habits that are ...

Even consciousness could reveal its secrets someday with this realistic simulation, researchers hope. It will not only ...

A new bioluminescent tool allows neurons to glow on their own, letting scientists track brain activity without harmful lasers ...

Rutgers researchers found that the distribution of neural timescales across the cortex plays a crucial role in how ...

New research has found that being overworked can physically alter the brain. Researchers in South Korea set out to understand how working long hours impact the cognitive and emotional health of ...

What if the key to being a better manager isn’t found in a new productivity hack, a different feedback framework, or a time management app—but in understanding the three-pound organ inside your head ...

Discover how nasal breathing, particularly slow and rhythmic inhales and exhales, directly enhances memory, focus and ...

The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. What if improving ...

A 2024 study outlined 15 risk factors of cognitive decline, concluding that diabetes, traffic-related air pollution and ...

How does the brain manage to catch the drift of a mumbled sentence or a flat, robotic voice? A new study led by researchers ...