WASHINGTON — To ticket companies, he’s a devil with a cause. Donning a cowboy hat, singer Robert James Ritchie, known as Kid ...

We also risk getting things very, very wrong. Generative AI works by predicting likely words from patterns trained on vast ...

Research shows that delaying important tasks is often driven by how the brain processes stress and threat—not by poor time ...

The National Institutes of Health failed to protect brain scans that an international group of fringe researchers used to ...

Experts say the more we challenge our brains as we age, the more resilient it becomes—and “learning a new instrument is a full-brain workout.” After the age of 40, the average brain decreases 5 ...

Annemieke Apergis-Schoute received funding from The Wellcome Trust for previous OCD research. Most of us have experienced it: a deadline approaches, the task is perfectly doable, yet instead of ...

No matter how a terrible place the world is, there is always someone who proves that the good always wins. Maybe that’s the first and only chance given by a fate that has never been fair to you. The ...

There’s this idea that something happens in the human brain when we turn 25. Suddenly, we can rent a car without fees. Make ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. Hello and happy new year! I love the first few days of a new year. It evokes a feeling ...

A pediatric neurologist named Dr. Arif Khan explained why Cocomelon does more harm than good for your little one.

The brain constantly blends split-second reactions with slower, more thoughtful processing, and new research shows how it pulls this off. Scientists discovered that brain regions operate on different ...

January is a time when many people reflect on their goals for the year ahead—a new job, a promotion, hitting the gym, or overall better health—but research from Baylor College of Medicine and ...