It is believed that eating oily, fatty, and processed food causes high cholesterol. But what if someone follows a clean diet and yet is diagnosed with high cholesterol? The answer is that high ...

GLP-1 receptor agonists, popularly known as GLP-1 drugs, have transformed the treatment of obesity and type 2 diabetes. Medicines such as semaglutide and tirzepatide are well known for helping people ...

Seeing feels immediate; we open our eyes and the world seems to appear as a continuous stream. But some visual illusions show that events occurring later can change how we perceive what happened ...

In a study led by Jii Kwon and Chun Kee Chung, from Seoul National University, researchers explored whether they could recreate melodies from the brain activity of people imagining how songs continue ...

Researchers used resting-state fMRI scans to examine how spontaneous brain activity relates to memories of early life stress and depressive traits in 97 adults. They found that localized activity in ...

Christof Koch is taking on one of science’s deepest mysteries: how the brain creates conscious experience, or whether it creates it at all. He argues that materialism has yet to solve this “hard ...

DON’T GET US wrong: We love AI. We love ChatGPT and Claude, but when MIT Media Lab researcher Nataliya Kos’myna, PhD, told us the impact of AI on our brains is “like TikTok and fentanyl had a baby,” ...

The device’s simple design could rival much more complex alternatives in biophysics research — and could even be used to search for dark matter. Scientists have turned a levitating magnet into a ...

A person’s sleeping brain may reveal warning signs of dementia long before memory problems begin. Researchers used machine learning to analyze EEG recordings from about 7,000 adults and found that an ...