How Does Your Brain Keep Track of Time?

A new finding challenges conventional wisdom about the mind’s internal clock

By Mike Orcutt | Posted February 22, 2010

Run, Don’t Walk from… the Slime Mold?

Recent research on slime molds shows that they can make complex decisions about nutrition

By Anna Rothschild | Posted February 11, 2010

Forgotten Memories Linger in the Brain

Your brain may remember something, even when you can’t

By Valerie Ross | Posted November 16, 2009

Illuminating the Mind

How an experimental mind-control technology could hasten the coming of the Singularity.

By Ferris Jabr | Posted October 9, 2009

Big Bright Green Songbird Machine

A new tool allows scientists to study how the brain grows and develops.

By Emily Elert | Posted October 6, 2009

Don’t Stand So Close to Me

Scientists pinpoint the region of the brain that controls your comfort zone.

By Crystal Gammon | Posted September 12, 2009

The Cruelest Cut

By Jonathan Teyan | Posted December 11, 2008

High on Memory

By Frederik Joelving | Posted December 3, 2008

Do you burn more calories when you think hard?

Asks Todd from Tulsa, Oklahoma

By Allison Bond | Posted October 27, 2008

Odor Research That Makes Scents

By Allison Bond | Posted October 9, 2008