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Standard scientific methods are under fire. Will anything change?
Standard scientific methods are under fire. Will anything change?
New findings suggest angst over the technology is misplaced
Social scientists have begun to close in on new ways to stop people from taking their own lives
An innovative study technique yields surprising results that counter the popular idea that knowing yourself is good for you
A new study provides an extraordinary close-up of the menagerie of neural cell types, yielding possible leads for neurological and psychiatric treatments
Research shows conflicting data on the impact of the intervention, but a major new study confirms it can work
Numerous reports documenting lucid moments at the end of life spur Alzheimer’s researchers to explore the phenomenon
A massive global study with 17,000 planted wallets found similar patterns among most of the 40 countries involved
A prototype detects whom you are listening to and amplifies only that speaker’s voice; a potential solution to the “cocktail party problem”
Study of students schooled on the issue showed them going on to shift their elders’ attitudes
Social neuroscientists ask what happens at the level of neurons when you tell someone a story or a group watches movies
A rigorous new paper uses a new scientific approach that shows the panic over teen screen time is likely overstated
Strong relationships seem to help baboons overcome early life adversity, and that could have big implications for human health
A new discovery shows how sound waves become brain waves—it may help find new therapies for the deaf
A new study shows election politics pushed Americans to cut family festivities short in 2016
In a new book a clinical psychologist describes patients who developed consuming romantic obsessions
A mouse study deconstructs for the first time a neural circuit underlying a complex social behavior
An early experiment demonstrates the shutting down of a faulty gene
New insights into the underpinnings of empathy might help us harness the emotion—just when we need it the most
The prospect of focusing the beams without destroying tissue might someday diagnose or even restore faulty brain circuits
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