A new study reveals that all human senses—sight, hearing, taste, and touch—activate the same deep brain regions linked to consciousness when attention is sharply focused.

A new study suggests that gabapentin, a widely used anti-seizure medication, may improve survival in patients with ...

Summary: Large language model (LLM) AI agents, when interacting in groups, can form shared social conventions without ...

A large-scale U.S. study reveals that Takotsubo cardiomyopathy—also known as broken heart syndrome—continues to carry a high ...

Researchers have, for the first time, tracked how individual neurons lose and recover energy during spreading depolarizations ...

A new study argues that some generative AI agents meet all three philosophical criteria for free will: agency, choice, and control.

Carriers of recessive gene mutations, long thought to be unaffected, may actually face subtle disadvantages, including more ...

A new study reveals how rats can learn to fear through inference, offering insights into the neural basis of higher-order ...

A new study reveals that a small cluster of cells near the brain's "blue spot"—the locus coeruleus—helps regulate arousal, ...

Summary: New brain imaging research reveals that sudden “aha!” moments not only feel satisfying but actually restructure how the brain stores information, enhancing long-term memory. Participants ...

A new study comparing long COVID patients with fully recovered individuals has found that those with persistent cognitive symptoms, like brain fog, show higher brain inflammation and reduced capacity ...

A new study finds that vegetarians reject meat with the emotion of disgust, rather than simple distaste, mirroring the strong aversion meat-eaters feel toward taboo foods like human flesh or feces.