The world, and countless generations of interactions with it, coaxed our brains to evolve in the unique way that humans perceive reality. And yet, thanks to the past century's developments in ...

How fast do humans think? According to a new study, it's slower than you might expect. The peripheral nervous system — the network of nerves that deliver information between the brain and the body — ...

Accumulating research and emerging experiences suggest we're witnessing fundamental changes in human psychological development that extend far beyond simple technology adoption.

One of my greatest clinical challenges in a long psychotherapy career came in the form of a woman who had an extreme dissociative disorder. To cope with a long history of abuse from both parents, she ...

Over the years, I’ve heard many fishermen, including some really accomplished anglers, try to explain bass behavior in human terms. “Bass are just like us, because…” or “If I were a bass, I would…”.

Prof. James Evans, a University of Chicago sociologist and data scientist, believes we’re training AI to think too much like humans—and it’s holding science back. In this episode, Evans shares how our ...

Israeli historian and philosopher Yuval Noah Harari’s book Sapiens became an international bestseller by presenting a view of history driven by the fictions created by mankind. His later work Homo ...

AI scientist, entrepreneur, and ‘Pioneers of AI’ podcast host Rana el Kaliouby shares her predictions for the year ahead.

Human brains take in sensory data at more than 1 billion bits per second, but only process that information at a measly 10 bits per second, new research has found. When you purchase through links on ...