You look up from your phone screen and suddenly realize you weren't thinking about anything. It's not a lapse in memory or a daydream; it's literally a moment when you're not thinking of anything at ...

A groundbreaking study shows that mice’s facial movements can reveal their problem-solving strategies, offering a non-invasive way to infer hidden thoughts.

The smarter you are, the more your brain is in sync with its own secret rhythm, a new study has found. When your brain works particularly hard, different regions of the brain sync up as they work ...

Taste and smell are so intimately connected that a whiff of well-loved foods evokes their taste without any conscious effort. Now, brain scans and machine learning have for the first time pinpointed ...

When we recall something familiar or explore a new situation, the brain does not always use the same communication routes. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. An ...

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Live Science picked Al-Khalili's brain about the show, how the human brain evolved and what the ... but I want to talk to someone who does know what they're talking about." So I thought this was a ...

From Edison to Taylor Swift, the brain is a living phonograph—recording and replaying the grooves of memory, culture, and ...

A new study looked at how moderate-to-vigorous physical activity can impact mental sharpness. It found that as little as five minutes of brisk movement, like jogging or taking a few flights of stairs, ...