A massive international brain study has revealed that memory decline with age isn’t driven by a single brain region or gene, ...

Individuals who struggle to complete tasks (at home, school, or the workplace) may not have a problem with executive function—they may have a misalignment of intentions and goals.

Math anxiety grows from stress, culture, and experience, not ability. By changing how we teach, test, and talk about math, we ...

The Protocols of the Elders of Zion was a short pamphlet circulated in early twentieth-century Russia as a purported exposé ...

Repeated exercise, or wasting, can change the way key genes work.

New research has discovered that a neural circuit may explain procrastination. Scientists were able to disrupt this connection using a drug.

Monkey experiments hint at a "motivation brake" pathway between two brain regions. Manipulating it may lead to new treatments ...

Does string theory—the controversial “theory of everything” from physics—tell us anything about consciousness and the human ...

There’s this idea that something happens in the human brain when we turn 25. Suddenly, we can rent a car without fees. Make ...