As politicians try to justify under-16 social media bans, researchers say the evidence simply isn’t there. As psychology ...

Warning: This article contains references to suicide, drug use and plenty of baseless conspiracy theories. Tin hats on, ...

The Anxious Generation presents convincing-looking graphs showing mental health going down while social media use goes up. These are a classic case of correlation not being causation. Using similar ...

Could the same method one day power sleep-time ads? It's like the movie Inception, but without Leonardo DiCaprio, unless you imagine him. Researchers used carefully timed sound cues to nudge dream ...

From adventures like E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial to dour dystopian gems like Blade Runner, these '80s sci-fi films are both ...

Could A.I. go rogue? Dario Amodei, the chief executive of Anthropic, says “something will go wrong,” but he believes “there is a science of how to control” the technology.

Pioneering studies suggested that motor information in the cortex is coded through the combined actions of large populations of widely tuned neurons rather than by small numbers of highly tuned ...

It seems that every parenting expert on the internet has a “script” for what to say when your child is having a tantrum or meltdown. Do they actually work?

You were just another C.T.R.L. employee clocking the graveyard shift, filing reports on things that shouldn’t exist. Now, the facility is under a sudden, total lockdown. Your main objective? Survive ...

Cognitive control is the process by which goals or plans influence behaviour. Also called executive control, this process can inhibit automatic responses and influence working memory. Cognitive ...

Your brain isn’t broken, but it may seem like that because of how the screen age overwhelms your biology. Neurologist Richard Cytowic argues that attention is a finite energy budget, not a virtue, and ...