Research on how people think, feel, remember, and decide. Coverage draws on psychology, neuroscience, and behavioral science.
A meta-analysis of 45 studies links short bursts of fine particulate air pollution, and months of elevated nitrogen dioxide, with higher odds of death by suicide, adding pollution to the shrinking list of modifiable risk factors researchers can act on.
Blood pressure, not brain scans, best predicted which patients cleared a key Alzheimer’s biomarker fastest after starting lecanemab, a Korea University study of 153 patients found, months before cognitive scores showed any difference.
Thirteen attempted out-of-body sessions in Brazil produced no correspondence between what volunteers described and a hidden target, but two of them accurately described researchers working behind a closed, unseen door.
Mice bred with tau pathology and Alzheimer’s genetics lost their brain-damaging immune response when researchers deleted a scarce class of dendritic cells that operates entirely in lymph nodes outside the brain.
Epilepsy patients wearing brain electrodes revealed that a breath’s rise and fall lines up with brain wave activity, but only through the nose, not a chest strap, and only in a narrow slice of recordings.
A pro-Russian hacker collective has launched more than 1,500 DDoS attacks since 2022, paying volunteers in cryptocurrency while treating each outage as a stage for undermining public trust in NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) governments.
A new philosophical account reframes moral distress in healthcare: not weakness or poor coping, but a byproduct of the perceptual skill that lets clinicians notice ethical problems in the first place.
A statistical framework called PGS-TRI reads DNA from a child and both parents to separate inherited autism risk from the influence of the family environment. Tested on 18,383 families, it validated existing genetic risk scores and mapped exactly where they fail.
In the hippocampus, the brain’s memory hub, a stalled process of creating new neurons may explain why depression distorts how people interpret everyday experiences, blurring past rejections into present moments.
Tracking 75 patients recovering from psychosis, researchers found the inflated expectation of an unstable world eased as delusions lifted, and clung to persecutory beliefs above all, hinting at a treatment target dopamine drugs miss.
Human brain tissue grown from stem cells kept maturing in culture for more than five years, following roughly the same timetable as a real brain. Chemical marks on its DNA recorded how long it had been growing, and older cells remembered which developmental steps they had already completed.
A decade-old claim that conspiracist thinkers endorse mutually exclusive theories at once was fading. A Bayesian reanalysis of nearly 8,600 people, plus a new experiment, revives it, and pins the effect on two mechanisms.