Struggling to focus? Your brain craves novelty, not endless quiet. Experts reveal attention thrives in short bursts, around ...

David Adam is a writer in Hertford, near London. Certain aspects of scientific life do not lend themselves to working from home. Archaeologist Adrià Breu, who studies neolithic pottery at the ...

When UC Berkeley biochemist Jennifer Doudna first began studying how bacteria fight virus infections, she had no idea it ...

Duane G. Watson is professor of cognitive science and of psychology and human development at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. Samuel A. Mehr is a senior lecturer in psychology at the ...

A new study suggests that everyday multilingual habits—from chatting with neighbors to revisiting a childhood language—may ...

Actions taken by the Trump administration have spurred changes at America's major science agencies — and if worst comes to worst, these shifts may jeopardize our understanding of how the brain works ...

The critical takeaway is that all the literature points in the same direction, even if it disagrees on the particulars, ...

During the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, Jay Van Bavel, a psychologist at New York University, wanted to identify the social factors that best predict a person’s support for public-health ...

Tracking the first astronauts’ visit to Mars won’t be as simple as watching a clock or marking days off of a calendar. Thanks ...

What you gain in a day by staying up late might be curtailing how long you live, according to a new study linking ...