You’re reading Open Questions, Joshua Rothman’s weekly column exploring what it means to be human. I like gadgets, and so, at times, my digital detox has verged on technophilic decadence. A few months ...

The human brain has 86 billion neurons connected by roughly 100 trillion synapses, making it one of the most complex objects in the known universe. Each year neuroscientists make fascinating, ...

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To better understand human cognition, scientists trained a large language model on 10 million psychology experiment questions. It now answers questions much like we do. By Carl Zimmer Companies like ...

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New evidence finds that the MIND diet lives up to its name, even when it is started later in life. Middle-aged and older participants in a large, long-term study were less likely to develop ...

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Is there anything people can do to start to restore some sanity and have actually productive conversations with people you disagree with? Yup, answer psychologists. Their advice isn’t always easy to ...