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Computers are good at storage and speed, but brains maintain the efficiency lead

Reading fiction can strengthen your social ties and even change your personality

Don't trust your instincts about free will or consciousness, experimental philosophers say

One genetic variant leads to the best and worst outcomes in kids

Having a bad reputation gets you noticed

Museum exhibits, conferences and events relating to the brain

Prairie voles in monogamous relationships respond less to drugs

Ambient smells could make or break a party

Our senses have difficulty parsing stimuli linked to a negative event

The brain looks for more than beauty when evaluating snapshots

Certain character traits influence people's willingness to apologize

Dutch researcher designs distinct characters into "Dyslexie" to make it more difficult for dyslexics to rotate, swap and mirror letters and numbers