New York is full of famous attractions that everyone knows about. The Statue of Liberty, the Empire State Building, Times ...

Here’s a fun fact: the human brain isn’t really designed to process water the color of Columbine Lake in the San Juan National Forest. When you first see it, your mind will do a little double-take, ...

Have you ever had a childhood memory suddenly go from "cool story" to "wait, that’s actually terrifying"? That’s the vibe we’re going for today. We’re taking things you’ve always taken for granted and ...

It is a dogma in neuroscience that certain brain cells respond in the same way to the same thing. Specific neurons always fire, for example, when we see particular shapes and colours; other neurons ...

Embrace a fixed mindset — assume that you aren’t (and will never be) particularly smart, or skilled, or adept, etc. — and whenever you find yourself struggling you’re likely to quit. If who you are is ...

When was the last time you paid attention to your commute? And I don’t mean a couple of feet in front of you, at the car merging into your lane without a blinker. I mean really paid attention to the ...

Though we are still a few weeks away from Memorial Day and the unofficial start of paying attention to the standings, 35-ish games is more than enough to dive into some fun facts and stats about the ...

The simple act of navigating a new place alone sets off a cascade of activity in the brain, engaging systems that most of our daily routines rarely touch A cosmetic surgeon had invited me to her ...

You trust your memory. You rely on it every single day to navigate your life, your relationships, your identity. But here's the uncomfortable truth: it’s lying to you. Constantly. Everything you think ...

Your brain is currently expending about a fifth of your body's energy, and almost none of that is being used for what you're doing right now. Reading these words, feeling the weight of your body in a ...

Nothing rivals the human brain's complexity. Its 86 billion neurons and 85 billion other cells make an estimated 100 trillion connections. If the brain were a computer, it would perform an exaflop (a ...