Why does stopping at a red light become automatic? New neuroscience shows how the cerebellum turns visual cues into fast, ...

When it comes to movies, it’s very possible that 2025 will be remembered more for what happened off the screen than on it.

The market is rotating away from Mag 7 and AI, with rising credit spreads signaling increased skepticism about large tech and data center CapEx. Free cash flows at key tech names like ORCL and META ...

In 1944, Erwin Schrödinger published a book called What Is Life?. The physicist, famous for his alive-and-dead cat, clearly relished a brainteaser. Today, there is still no good definition. Life is ...

A new study shows that while Czech speakers are immune to specific grammar illusions in their mother tongue, they unconsciously adopt the "glitchy" processing patterns of native speakers when reading ...

In a new study, researchers discovered that the human brain has four pivotal periods when it goes through marked changes, sparking five "epochs" that last for years. The adolescent phase, for example, ...

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America’s middle class is weary. After nearly five years of high prices, many middle-class earners thought life would be more affordable by now. Costs for goods and services are 25% above where they ...

If the idea of strength training once conjured young men thrusting a barbell or popping out pullups, the tides have since turned: Lifting, even lifting heavy, has finally gained cultural cachet among ...

For most of the past six million years, the human story played out in shifting woodlands, open plains and coastal zones shaped only by natural forces. Early ancestors adapted slowly to changing ...

Neuroscientists studying the shifts between sleep and awareness are finding many liminal states, which could help explain the disorders that can result when sleep transitions go wrong Yasemin ...

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