New neuroscience explains why resolutions matter—and how planning, flexibility, and self-reflection help them stick.

Every scientist sees the world through the lens of their discipline. A geologist touches a rock and reads time, a virologist peers at a public handrail with considerable mistrust. When I look out at ...

We’re all traveling all the time. It might be mundane, like that rote commute to school drop-off or our workplace, or the travel might be unusual, like that time my husband and I swam with stingrays ...

Do you take your coffee with cream, sugar — or a side of brain damage? “Caffeine in the neuroscience literature is genuinely terrible when combined with other drugs,” warned Dr. Natashia Swalve, a ...

A small but enthusiastic group of neuroscientists is exhuming overlooked experiments and performing new ones to explore whether cells record past experiences — fundamentally challenging what memory is ...

Modern neuroscience suggests it does. Research shows mastering this often overlooked ability will not only upgrade your brain, but make it much more likely you’ll achieve your goals (with less ...

That is what we have experienced this week in the story of Ahmed al Ahmed, the Muslim fruit-seller who intervened, at great ...

"Consciousness," although challenging to define, can be thought of as a first-person awareness of one's surroundings and oneself. You sense the world through your eyes, nose, ears and hands, and track ...

Have you ever been so consumed by a crush that you couldn't stop thinking about them? Or when you weren't around them, you felt sick to your stomach? There's a word for that, and it's called ...