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A Playbook for Science Denial, ‘Scientific Phallocracy’ in the Animal Kingdom, and More

Amy Brady

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Why Social Media Makes People Unhappy—And Simple Ways to Fix It

Daisy Yuhas | Opinion

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How Parents’ Trauma Leaves Biological Traces in Children

Adverse experiences can change future generations through epigenetic pathways

Rachel Yehuda

Diversity

A Playbook for Science Denial, ‘Scientific Phallocracy’ in the Animal Kingdom, and More

Amy Brady

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Why Social Media Makes People Unhappy—And Simple Ways to Fix It

Daisy Yuhas | Opinion

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The Kavli Prize Presents: Understanding Neurodevelopment and Neurodegeneration [Sponsored]

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Militia Expert Warns Trump’s Capitol Insurrectionists Could Try Again

Amy Cooter | Opinion

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Behind Every Smile

Andrea Gawrylewski

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Strawberry Fields

Stephen Macknik and Susana Martinez-Conde

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When Things Feel Unreal, Is That a Delusion or an Insight?

John Horgan | Opinion

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Why You Can’t Remember Being Born: A Look at ‘Infantile Amnesia’

Vanessa LoBue and The Conversation US

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Why Social Media Makes People Unhappy—And Simple Ways to Fix It

Research suggests platform designs make us lose track of time spent on them and can heighten conflicts, and then we feel upset with ourselves

Daisy Yuhas | Opinion

When Things Feel Unreal, Is That a Delusion or an Insight?

The psychiatric syndrome called derealization raises profound moral and philosophical questions

John Horgan | Opinion

Why You Can’t Remember Being Born: A Look at ‘Infantile Amnesia’

Infants can form memories, just not the kind that recalls specific experiences

Vanessa LoBue and The Conversation US

Pharmaceuticals

Treating Alzheimer’s Before It Takes Hold

Researchers are giving drugs to healthy people in hope of clearing away toxic proteins in the brain and preventing neurodegeneration.

Alison Abbott and Nature magazine

Facial Expressions Do Not Reveal Emotions

The emotion AI industry, courts and child educators are unknowingly relying on a misunderstanding of Darwin’s ideas

Lisa Feldman Barrett | Opinion

How the Brain ‘Constructs’ the Outside World

Neural activity probes your physical surroundings to select just the information needed to survive and flourish

György Buzsáki

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The Top 10 Innovations in Mental Health

A look at methods and technologies that are transforming the work of psychiatrists and psychologists

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These Researchers Are Putting Fly Babies into Virtual Reality

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What Research in Antarctica Tells Us about the Science of Isolation

September 24, 2020

Biology

The Color of Noise: What Do Hues Have to Do with Sound?

October 17, 2019

Cognition

If You Think It's Love, Switch to Decaf: How We Misinterpret Emotional Arousal

March 7, 2018

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Adolescent Risk-Takers: The Power of Peers

February 21, 2018

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