YouTube video by Giant's Shoulder

He explains how meaning arises in the interactions found throughout nature and evolution, from molecules to minds.

Science says that you are nothing but a chemical reaction — a collection of atoms and molecules, like rocks, paperclips, and everything else in t...

A small but enthusiastic group of neuroscientists is exhuming overlooked experiments and performing new ones to explore whether cells record past experiences — fundamentally challenging what memory is...

YouTube video by Neuroscience and Beyond

Human memory has a limit. As a civilization, we may have reached it. What happens now?

Our special guest for today is Nikolay Kukushkin, a clinical associate professor and neuroscientist at NYU, and author, who also considers himself a molecular philosopher. His research answers the que...

The best way to snap an athlete out of platitude autopilot in a press conference is to get them to vent about some technical complaint. Like everyone else, they have esoteric gripes about their workpl...

Memories are a big part of celebrating the holidays, but is more than your brain involved in this process? Nikolay Kukushkin, clinical associate professor of life science at New York University, looks...

Members of the Pirahã tribe use a “one-two-many” system of counting. I ask whether speakers of this innumerate language can appreciate larger numerosities without the benefit of words to encode them. ...

Scientists found memory’s molecular machinery at work in cells outside the nervous system.

Could spelling be the reason English speakers excel in science, Italians in music, and Russians — in math?