The Las Vegas Raiders and head coach Pete Carroll talk about culture and forward thinking, but repeated mistakes and stalled development keep progress frustratingly theoretical. Carroll is still ...

We’re delighted to introduce our brand new puzzle, Mini Cogs. As you might have guessed from its name, Mini Cogs is a smaller version of our new puzzle, Cogs: a unique twist on a word game that blends ...

Socrates wasn’t the greatest fan of the written word. Famous for leaving no texts to posterity, the great philosopher is said to have believed that a reliance on writing destroys the memory and ...

We all have a pretty clear idea in our heads of what a movie director does — they guide the performances of actors, interpret the script, and steer the overall visual style of the film. But “video ...

Dario Amodei, the C.E.O. of the artificial-intelligence company Anthropic, has been predicting that an A.I. “smarter than a Nobel Prize winner” in such fields as biology, math, engineering, and ...

Share on Pinterest A new study aims to explain how menopause restructures the brain. Pawel Wewiorski/Getty Images A research team from Puerto Rico carried out a literature review to compile findings ...

Scientists are reporting the first compelling evidence in people that cognitive training can boost levels of a brain chemical that typically declines with age. A 10-week study of people 65 or older ...

In 2011, 16-year-old Megan Bhari founded a charity called Believe in Magic to help terminally ill children. She claimed she was dying of brain cancer herself—and celebrities like One Direction rallied ...

On September 14, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested Ihsanullah Garay after he asked for directions while making a delivery in Methuen, Massachusetts. Defending his arrest to the Lowell ...

Every day, your brain makes thousands of decisions under uncertainty. Most of the time, you guess right. When you don't, you learn. But when the brain's ability to judge context or assign meaning ...

Dogs do it, cats do it, deer do it – in fact, many species of mammals can swivel their ears to direct their hearing. Humans lost this ability about 25 million years ago, but according to a new study, ...