David Krakauer reflects on the foundations and future of complexity science

Fleeting sleep interruptions may help brain reset

In Defense of Doing Your Own Research

Good Authority

A new species of supergiant Bathynomus

Rabbi says psychedelics are "elephant in the room" in sacred Jewish text

Chan Thomas

Cognitive Endurance

Reproducibility and Replicability of Qualitative Research

Universities with publication metrics researchers say are too good to be true

The Global Collapse of Coupling and Fertility

Entropy, Integration, and Mind

Brain gene expression syncs between bonded prairie voles

Cognitive Endurance as Human Capital [pdf]

Full-waveform inversion reveals diverse origins of lower mantle anomalies

The Prodigy Paradox

90% of scientific research is crap

Biotech company agrees to pay $4M to settle data falsification allegations

Ticker-tape synaesthesia reveals links to dyslexia

Are Artificial Naps on the Horizon?

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences (1959) [pdf]

Priesthoods

Can 35 roommates cure loneliness?

Memory is not exclusive to the brain: Non-neural cells also remember

Recent African origin of modern humans

NASA proposes cheaper, quicker way to get Mars rocks and soil to Earth

Peak Performance and Yerkes–Dodson

$20T Transatlantic Tunnel Would Be 'High Risk' Build

Japan and America: Two Paths, One Bridge

Sarcoma Accidentally Transplanted from a Patient to a Surgeon

Does delaying carb consumption after exercise impair next-day performance?

Breakfast energy intake and dietary quality and cardiometabolic risk

Recent encounters with atom-thin salami slicing

Solving intelligence requires new research and funding models

FBI: Largest homemade explosives cache in agency history found in Virginia

What's the true secret to happiness? Scientists could be about to find out

It's the Most Indispensable Machine in the World–and It Depends on This Woman

Money Can Buy a Longer Life–To a Point

What Will Humans Look Like in 50k Years?

The Dirty Business of Monkey Laundering

Engineers and the New Technocracy

DNS Record Types You Should Know

Using Values to Become Your Best Self

Gamut, Gauntlet, Gambit

Turning Stress into Strength

The true story of a CIA plane crash in Death Valley National Park

Neuroscientists just turned a major Alzheimer's theory on its head

Our brains create mental "chapters" with new event segmentation study

Top-down attention shifts behavioral/neural event boundaries in narratives

Did you perceive the invisible gorilla after all?

Lutein and Zeaxanthin

Optimizing the Time and Dose of Melatonin as a Sleep-Promoting Drug

Take a Walk

Dietary fructose enhances tumour growth

Males and females show different patterns of risk for brain-based conditions

Understanding the neural code of stress to control anhedonia

Sniffing Out the Mysteries of Olfaction

Physical Activity, Sleep, and Cognitive Performance in Older Adults

The Courage to Live

The works of Ha-Joon Chang [pdf]

Causality in Economics and Keynes' General Theory [pdf]

From the Bretton Woods system to global stagnation [pdf]

Game Theory Meets Vinge

Is the Dunning-Kruger effect real?

New genetic tools usher amphibian neuroscience research into modern age

Wiley medical journal retracts papers for manipulated peer review

From Philosophy to Algorithms

Brain surgery for lasting relief from obsessive-compulsive disorder

The quest to build bionic limbs that feel like the real thing

Novel neurons upend 'yin-yang' model of hunger, satiety in brain

Body roundness: a new geometrical model

Small-World Networks

Daily Orange Consumption Reduces Hepatic Steatosis

Interview with Guido Scorza [video]

What happens to your body when you take a sip of coffee

How the fearless John Milton foresaw our age of chilling censorship

Natural soundscapes enhance mood recovery amid anthropogenic noise pollution

RNA may implement universal computation

What's next for brain-directed gene therapy after death in Neurogene trial

To keep or not to keep: Neurophysiology's data dilemma

What Can Birdsong Teach Us About Human Language?