As sure as the brain is prone to distraction, it can also return its focus to the task at hand. A new study in animals by ...

The field of cognitive science has been dramatically reshaped by the emergence of large-scale neural architectures, most notably Transformer-based Large ...

Neuroscientists have discovered that when the brain is distracted, coordinated “rotating” waves of neural activity help it steer back to focus.

Homing in on the junk-food pyramid to rank its most harmful members, researchers from Virginia Tech have discovered that ...

Joint research from Edith Cowan University (ECU) and the University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences, in the US, is ...

An early-stage study has found that a common chemotherapy drug disrupts lymphatic cells in the tissue surrounding the brain.

The high cost of publishing open access has plagued researchers for years, but a dedicated group of Harvard scientists and librarians are fighting to alleviate the costs of publishing.

I started helping at a food bank for a kind of selfish reason -- it made me feel good. But it turns out I made some good ...

New landmark scientific research shows that tiny but mighty-brained sentient bumble bees display positive emotional contagion ...

For some brain changes, the age that women go through menopause may be a factor. Those whose periods cease before 47 are more ...

In this week’s edition of The Prototype, we look at why AI models struggle with finance, a revolutionary superconducting ...

Perhaps nowhere is this more clear than when it comes to conspiracy theories: Many people believe that you can’t talk conspiracists out of their beliefs. But that’s not necessarily true. It turns out ...