For years, stimulant medications for ADHD have been described as chemical accelerators, framed as drugs that rev up a ...

Neuroscientists have been trying to understand how the human brain supports numerous advanced capabilities for centuries. The ...

The idea that the universe itself might be intelligent sounds like science fiction, yet a growing group of researchers is ...

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..it seems that a way to make sense of the "execessive risk taking" during the recent financial meltdown is simply mass individual addictive behavior around money - and likely technological ...

Thanks to the guidance of my undergraduate mentor, Prof. Robert B. Tallarico, when I was an undergraduate student I had the great treat of reading The Evolution of Physics: The Growth of Ideas from ...

Fossils of a tiny sea creature that died more than half a billion years ago may compel a science textbook rewrite of how brains evolved. A study published in Science—led by Nicholas Strausfeld, a ...

ADHD stimulants may improve performance not by sharpening focus, but by making the brain more awake and motivated.