Reading brain activity with advanced technologies is not a new concept. However, most techniques have focused on identifying ...

It's one of nature's greatest ironies: the human brain lacks the ability to grasp its own complexity. Indeed, the brain is complicated. The three-pound organ housed in our heads consists of roughly 86 ...

Yet science has a track record of turning theoretical possibilities into reality. Just because a concept seems terribly, unimaginably difficult doesn’t mean it’s impossible. Consider that science took ...

If there is a beginning time point for the Age of Scientific Reversal, it may be 1887—the year when Albert A. Michelson and Edward W. Morley conducted what is often called the world’s most famous ...

Macsai is Chief Strategy Officer at TIME. Although one or two talks at the Chicago Ideas Week’s “Scientific Breakthroughs” forum went just a tad over our heads—quantum DNA, anyone?—the session was jam ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American I bought a Kindle recently, and excitedly ...

A turning point for Rafael Yuste, a neuroscientist at New York's Columbia University, came when his lab discovered it could ...

Science still faces mysteries like dark matter, consciousness, and the origin of life—questions that challenge researchers and push the limits of understanding.

Nike is expanding into “mind science” with new footwear it says is designed to deepen bodily awareness, a move regenerative ...