Neuroscience
The brain, neural systems and cognitive neuroscience.
OpenAI Buries the Standalone Atlas Browser, Merges Its Brains into a Workspace OS
OpenAI has killed its standalone AI browser experiment after just ten months — and instead of scrapping the tech, it’s folding Atlas into a single desktop app that aims to replace your entire productivity stack.
Generalists, Not Specialists—The Brain’s Real Wiring
A study of 43 mouse cortical regions reveals that most neurons function as versatile generalists rather than specialized units, enabling complex, high-dimensional computations crucial for cognitive flexibility.
The Silent Erosion of Agency: How We Unknowingly Submit to Circumstance
Adapting to life's crises is often necessary, but it can lead to the unintentional erosion of our values. This article explores how we can maintain agency while navigating uncertain times by deliberately choosing our responses.
The Brain's Trust Algorithm: In an AI-Saturated Inbox, Your Brain Still Knows the Difference
When AI floods every inbox with identical messages, your brain’s ancient detection system still spots the difference—between effort and automation, specificity and template, a real person and a tool pretending to be one. The neuroscience of trust hasn’t changed; what has changed is how scarce that signal really feels now.
The Single Sniff: What Mice and Humans Share in the Brain's Smell Circuitry
Northwestern University researchers discover that mice and humans share identical neural circuitry for smell processing, with volitional sniffing controlled by motor cortex in rodents and theta oscillations (2-8 Hz) enabling rapid odor processing in humans despite slower breathing rates.
How a Brain Reflex Center Cut AI's Energy Use by 10,000 Times
Northwestern engineers built a cerebellum-inspired memtransistor from atomically thin molybdenum disulfide that ignores routine data and flags the unexpected — detecting heart arrhythmias within a fraction of a heartbeat using 10,000-fold fewer operations than conventional AI.
Brain Dynamics and the Emotional Life History: A New Perspective on Near-Death Experiences
An exploration of the newly proposed "dying-moment dream hypothesis," which posits that an individual's emotional history shapes their near-death experience imagery.
Beyond the High: When Daily Cannabis Rewires Your Brain’s Baseline
New neuroscience reveals that daily cannabis use doesn't just build tolerance—it shifts the brain into an adapted operating state that persists beyond intoxication, making users feel 'normal' only because their brain has recalibrated its baseline around THC exposure.
The Neural Sync Revolution: How Real-World Brainwave Alignment Is Reshaping Science and Therapy
A decade-long body of real-world neuroscience has proven that “being on the same wavelength” is a measurable neurobiological reality—reliable, scalable, and now poised to reshape therapy.
70 Years of AI: How Psychology and Cognitive Science Built Artificial Intelligence
The 70th birthday of artificial intelligence marks not just a technological milestone, but also the birth of cognitive science and psychology's modern collaboration with computing—where terms like neural networks, learning, memory, and intelligence were borrowed directly from psychology to build machines that simulate human thought.
How a Ketogenic Diet Rewires Brain Energy—and Hope—for Psychosis
A metabolic pivot—swapping glucose for ketones—restores brain fuel to patients with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, bypassing defective glucose processing and delivering rapid cognitive and psychiatric relief.
Consciousness Studies Degree Pathways: Understanding Backlash as Evidence of Cultural Momentum
Drawing on psychology, cultural theory, and the lived experience of consciousness studies degree programs, this article reframes backlash as not failure—but a necessary signal that deep cultural shifts are underway. When pushback emerges, it often means the ground is moving beneath old assumptions.