The wiring and rewiring of the brain never ends. Neural pathways are constantly being reshaped as we interact with the world ...

Two experts at the forefront of untangling the gut-brain connection explain its role in IBS, Parkinson’s, and depression.

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Imagine meeting someone new whose smile feels just a bit wrong. You might think, "this smile is too fast (or slow, or crooked ...

Recent theoretical and empirical work on predictive processing and brain plasticity may help explain both the onset of and ...

A new genetic screening method allows researchers to efficiently modulate individual genes across entire tissues and provides ...

A University of Iowa researcher has won more than $500,000 in grants to merge machine learning with a technique called ...

A new study, published July 6, 2026, in the journal Nature Communications, suggests that two of the best-known trends in ...

Eliana Jordan left office life, became a scuba instructor, and later taught herself to code to build something of her own.

Diving into virtual reality (VR) can do some strange things to the brain, as a new study highlights. In an experiment, volunteers given VR wings for a couple of hours started thinking of these wings ...

What happens when the majority of content on the internet tips over into AI slop? On this episode of Galaxy Brain, Charlie Warzel talks to Max Spero, a co-founder of Pangram, an AI-detection company.

Last week, Epic Games announced it was laying off over 1,000 employees to “keep the company funded.” One of them was Mike Prinke, a programmer who had been at the Fortnite maker for just under seven ...