Like many forty-something scientists working in labs today, Dr. David Eagleman remembers watching Carl Sagan on television as a kid and feeling his imagination expand. Each week on Cosmos (1980), ...

Your brain doesn't like to keep secrets. Studies at the University of Texas, Austin, have shown that writing down secrets in a journal or telling a doctor your secrets actually decreases the level of ...

This week in the magazine, Burkhard Bilger writes about David Eagleman and the mysteries of the brain. Bilger and Eagleman answered readers’ questions in a live chat. A transcript of the discussion ...

Burns, the daughter of documentary filmmaker Ken Burns, examines the facts of the Central Park Jogger case. In 1989, 28-year-old Trisha Meili was raped and beaten nearly to death. One Latino and four ...

In 2000, 43 years after going totally blind at the age of three in a freak accident, a California man named Mike May had his sight restored in one eye by a pioneering stem cell procedure, coupled with ...

In the six-part “The Brain With David Eagleman,” which begins on many PBS stations Wednesday, the neuroscientist tries to shed some light on the inner-working of brains, something few of us have any ...

Neuroscientist/author David Eagleman is smart. We don t mean perfect-score-on-his-SAT smart, we mean Albert Einstein/Stephen Hawking smart. Somehow he sees beyond the physical world and is able to ...

The brain is a battlefield, says neuroscientist David Eagleman. You might think you're making single-minded decisions, but you're really not. "Instead, you are made up of multiple drives, all of whom ...

What makes humans special? Some credit should go to the opposable thumb and the larynx, says neuroscientist David Eagleman, but a lot of it has to do with our ability to be creative and constantly ...

David Eagleman is a neuroscientist at Stanford University and the author of eight books, most recently “Livewired.” ...

The author tackles where the human brain and astronomy intersect Summer Ash David Eagleman is a neuroscientist, author, and entrepreneur. He heads the Laboratory for Perception and Action at Baylor ...

David Eagleman -- maybe the world's most famous neuroscientist, and definitely Houston's -- has an astounding proposition to make: Give his lab $5 or more, and he'll use it to expand human perception.