Stories by laurex

Latin America Is the Murder Capital of the World

Mind–Body Problems: My Meta-Solution to the Mystery of Who We Really Are

How the Brain Combines Memories to Solve Problems

Does Thinking Burn Calories?

Clearing out old cells might help the brain

A new way to capture the brain’s electrical symphony

Plasticity is enhanced but dysregulated in the aging brain

Heartbeat paces learning

How Connected Is Your Community to Everywhere Else in America?

Trash-Talking and Trolling

Engineers decode conversations in brain's motor cortex

Activity, not rest, enables mice to overcome brain damage

Coding Is Dead, Long Live Coding

We’re designing bike lanes wrong

Should Students Listen to Background Music While They Read?

Scientists Are Developing New Ways to Treat Disease with Cells, Not Drugs

Why scientists are transplanting artificially grown “brains” into living brains

Growing computers in petri dishes

The Abyss of Chronic Pain

New research in sea slugs sparks controversy about the way memories are stored