When you feel rewarded by someone else's happiness, your brain starts treating them like a favorite. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. That's the surprising takeaway ...

Far too many students enter math class expecting to fail. For them, math isn’t just a subject–it’s a source of anxiety that chips away at their confidence and makes them question their abilities. A ...

Understanding how the brain learns and applies rules is the key to unraveling the neural basis of flexible behavior. A new study from the University of Toyama, Japan, reveals that our ability to ...

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 ...

When you feel rewarded by someone else’s happiness, your brain starts treating them like a favorite. That’s the surprising takeaway from new research by psychologists at the USC Dornsife College of ...

NEW YORK, April 22, 2026 — A signaling pathway best known for shaping the brain before birth also helps govern how adults learn, adapt, and persist in their behavior, according to new research co-led ...

Vision is one of the most fundamental senses, shaping how we perceive, navigate and interact with the world around us. Yet for more than 12 million Americans living with visual impairments, even small ...

Scientists have known for more than a century that a single-celled organism with no nerve cells — much less a brain — can behave in ways that resemble learning. But those observations only went so far ...

Using cannabis daily reshapes the brain's normal operating state, which persists beyond intoxication and biases the person to continue to use. The brain adapts to what it's given.

The greatest therapeutic effects of psychedelics appear to occur long after the drug is gone. New research suggests they ...

When you feel rewarded by someone else's happiness, your brain starts treating them like a favorite. That's the surprising takeaway from new research by psychologists at the USC Dornsife College of ...