22+ hour, 32+ min ago   (191+ words) PsyPost Study authors André J. Szameitat and Diana P. Szameitat wanted to explore whether men and women differ in their multitasking abilities. They hypothesized that, during demanding everyday multitasking, men might talk less. To explore this, they designed an experimental…...

15+ min ago   (375+ words) Published on May 17, 2026, in Nature Communications, lead author Renée Kosonen, co-first author Kristie Stefanoska, and senior author Arne Ittner traced how tau operates in healthy brain circuits—and how its breakdown triggers cognitive decline. Mice do not need tau to…...

2+ hour, 55+ min ago   (355+ words) Developers in Singapore have launched a prototype of the world's first biological data center based on living human neurons. The project organizers grew biological cells from human stem cells in a laboratory at the medical faculty of the National University…...

12+ hour, 45+ min ago   (235+ words) A study by Emory University of 54 people with a sleep disorder and mild cognitive impairment links a daily dose of 5,000 IU of vitamin D to a 13 percent better score on a memory test. The researchers single out the stage of…...

2+ hour, 31+ min ago   (436+ words) Cell-culture brain models called organoids can be used to study far more advanced stages of neurodevelopment than researchers once imagined, according to new research. A team funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) reports that organoids were sustained for…...

3+ hour, 56+ min ago   (655+ words) "Is consciousness completely reducible to brain activity?" asks the John Templeton Foundation's Martha Park. "Are the tools of third-person, objective science sufficient to explain consciousness?" Michael Pollan, author of A World Appears: A Journey Into Consciousness, delves into the fierce…...

6+ hour, 51+ min ago   (253+ words) Is artificial intelligence gaining consciousness? This is the question many researchers have tried to answer over the years. Now, Blaise Agüera y Arcas, Google’s vice-president of Technology and Society and leader of the company’s Paradigms of Intelligence team, suggests that…...

3+ hour, 20+ min ago   (920+ words) Part 2 of a 5-part follow-up series. The first series asked what intelligence is; this one asks whether there’s more than one kind. Last time I set up the two camps in the great intelligence debate and argued they share a…...

3+ hour, 34+ min ago   (195+ words) Our organs are kind of hard to miss. But researchers from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, publishing their findings in Nature, say they’ve found what amounts to a new immune organ inside our skulls. The researchers discovered…...

8+ hour, 16+ min ago   (961+ words) Dopamine has long been a buzzword for those thinking about mood, happiness, and attention. But what if dopamine isn't the "feel-good" chemical we've been told it is? A new study suggests we may have been thinking about dopamine all wrong....