Researchers identified some 3,300 types of brain cells, an order of magnitude more than was previously known, and have only a dim notion of what most of them do. By Carl Zimmer An international team ...

Cognitive warfare is less about controlling territory and more about shaping perception. The objective is to gain an information advantage that translates into a decision advantage, influencing how ...

From popular culture to the dark corners of the internet, there are many claims about “fundamental” differences between people on the basis of gender, racial or ethnic groups, sexuality, or other ...

A massive suite of papers offers a high-res view of the human and non-human primate brain. This article first appeared in The Checkup, MIT Technology Review's weekly biotech newsletter. To receive it ...

Well-being, which is sometimes also referred to as psychosocial well-being, is defined in different ways depending on who you ask. Psychologists have tended to define well-being in one of two ways.

Researchers have created the largest atlas of human brain cells so far, revealing more than 3,000 cell types — many of which are new to science. The work, published in a package of 21 papers today in ...

The website Wikipedia describes curiosity as a “quality related to inquisitive thinking, such as exploration, investigation, and learning, evident in humans and other animals.” But there is a lot more ...