Across multiple mouse models carrying different autism-linked variants, gene activity in the prefrontal cortex fell into two opposing patterns, a large transcriptomic study shows. In one, genes ...

I get out of bed. I walk through the dimly lit hallway, thinking of what’s in my fridge and what I should have for breakfast. With no real effort, I’ve navigated my environment, accessed my memory, ...

You are standing at a crosswalk. The light is red. A bus roars past you a little too closely. Your phone buzzes with a BOGO offer from Starbucks. A billboard changes from a perfume ad to a phone ...

Fact check: Did two brains evolve into one? At ZME Science, Tudor Tarita tells us that our current brains may have started as two separate organs in different life forms five hundred million years ago ...

Dogs hear us talk every day, but what does their brain do with these sounds? A new study suggests that dogs can detect repeating patterns in streams of speech, especially when those patterns are ...

Editor’s note: We are delighted to present a new series by William Dembski, adapted from his Substack. This is the third post. Find the full series so far here, “My Personal History with Information.” ...

Dog brains segment speech into words in a way previously seen only in humans, a new study from Hungary finds. This suggests that efficient speech processing is not necessarily a consequence of humans' ...

Legendary D.C. punks Bad Brains are issuing their long sought-after first demo tape. Recorded in 1979 at Arlington, Virginia’s Inner Ear Studios and newly remastered by Ian MacKaye, Are You Ready: The ...

As anyone reading this probably knows, the Bad Brains were one of the most important punk-rock bands of all time, Washington D.C.-bred pioneers of the sound that became hardcore. While they were a ...

Late last week, we started seeing headlines about how new research was suggesting we might have two brains instead of the one that seems to show up on MRI scans. As is so often the case, these rumors ...