1+ hour, 45+ min ago  (439+ words) A new neuroscience study suggests that acute stress disrupts the brain's ability to connect past experiences with new information, weakening insight and inference even when basic memory remains intact. This disruption in neural integration provides a compelling explanation for why…...

5+ hour, 14+ min ago  (381+ words) Led by Malipeddi Saketh at India's National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, the team monitored 103 participants. This international study included complete beginners, novice practitioners, and advanced meditators. Using high-density 128 channel EEG caps, the researchers recorded lectrical changes as they…...

5+ hour ago  (218+ words) Michelle Carr has been unraveling the science of the sleeping mind'and how to lucid dream'since her first such experience as a URochester undergraduate....

6+ hour, 14+ min ago  (489+ words) Adaptive sound control could help those with hearing loss It can be difficult to carry on conversation in a crowded public setting, and even more so with any degree of hearing loss. But what if you could amplify only the…...

3+ hour, 51+ min ago  (770+ words) When two mice both carry an unmarked copy of a gene, their offspring should carry an unmarked copy too. One copy from each parent, combined in predictable ways. Simple math, reliable outcome. Researchers recently put that assumption to the test…...

18+ hour, 58+ min ago  (380+ words) Here's How Distracting Your Phone Notifications Really Are (According To Science) AOL. com In 2022, a team of psychologists from the University of Arkansas and Plymouth University in England challenged a group of college students to complete cognitive tests while being…...

6+ hour, 16+ min ago  (305+ words) New research from Oxford University reveals why the vast majority of humans are right-handed. Approximately 90% of people across all human cultures are right-handed, and no other primate species shows a population-wide preference of this magnitude. But why? New research led…...

20+ hour, 21+ min ago  (568+ words) Previous studies looking at air pollution and young brains have yielded mixed results. Some past research suggested that pollution affects brain thickness, while other studies found no such connection. The authors noted that these inconsistencies might happen because earlier research…...

5+ hour, 14+ min ago  (325+ words) The female brain undergoes profound changes to prepare for parenthood....

7+ hour, 50+ min ago  (746+ words) A medical startup says it is using disembodied human brains in new drug development research targeting neurodegenerative diseases, a practice that may draw unsettling comparisons to the science fiction trope of a living brain in a jar." The brains of…...