neuroscience, culture

Much of what researchers believe about the public and effective communication is wrong.

Evolving, The Moral Molecule, Aping Mankind, and Experiment Eleven

The Aha! Moment, Imagine, Ignorance, and The Age of Insight

One year olds smile more and communicate better if they participate in interactive music classes with their parents.

Being an ex-drug-addict turned neuroscientist brings a unique insight into the physiological and phenomenological realities of addiction.

Meet some of the people featured in the April 2012 issue of The Scientist.

In Chapter 12, "The Opium Fields," author Marc Lewis recounts one night spent in the brain chemistry-bending grip of opium addiction.

Baboons are able to distinguish printed English words from nonsense sequences of letters—the first step in the reading process.

Spectators experience some of the same brain impulses as the dancers they're watching.

A new play about the father of modern neuroscience explores the many facets of Santiago Ramón y Cajal's work, personality, and life.

Studying the evolution of altruistic behaviors reveals how knee-jerk good intentions can backfire.

In Chapter 1, editors Barbara Oakley, Ariel Knafo, and Michael McGrath introduce the concept of well-intentioned behaviors that go awry.

People who are emotionally connected are more likely to catch the yawns from one another.

In an essay entitled "Nurture, Nature, and the Stress That is Life," neurobiologists Darlene Francis and Daniela Kaufer envision a future where science moves past the nature vs. nurture debate in considering differences in human behavioral responses to stress.

The book that serves as bio art's encyclopedia.

More than 100 researchers have left a neuroscience institute in Brazil in the last couple of weeks, protesting managerial problems they say are thwarting their work.

Indian researchers argue that applying for new visas every year is an insult to international scientists.

The Royal Society's annual science extravaganza packs some interesting stuff into 5 days of love and research.