After researchers found that we’re speaking less and less each year, Shayla Love spent a week collecting audio recordings from her own life.

Training programmes for people with aphantasia – the inability to create mental images – are challenging neuroscientists' understanding of how we create thoughts

The Trump administration seems determined to reduce scientific testing on animals. Just how serious is it about its new pet project?

Learning while sleeping had long been relegated to the realm of quackery, but new studies suggest that we may be able to problem-solve and practice skills in our dreams.

Scientists define the stages of life in biological, societal, and chronological terms—but none of them quite capture what it’s like to grow up.

In recent years, researchers have challenged the idea that farewells are uniquely human.

A foundational 1956 study of the concept, focussed on a U.F.O. doomsday cult, has been all but debunked by new research.

A foundational 1956 study of the concept, focussed on a U.F.O. doomsday cult, has been all but debunked by new research.

Richert discusses the drugs that have made their way onto the therapist’s couch.

Miracles by definition defy science. But a new research effort attempts to understand what our experiences with them do to the brain.

In a pop-up city off the coast of Honduras, longevity startups are trying to fast-track anti-aging drugs. Is this the future of medical research?

R.F.K., Jr., and the MAHA movement are at war with synthetic food dyes. Scientists are racing to reinvent the culinary color wheel.

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Our culture has become obsessed with “blue zones,” where people purportedly live longer. But does the underlying research stand up to scrutiny?

In one tiny town, more than a dozen people were diagnosed with the rare neurodegenerative disease ALS. Why?

Insects make up about forty per cent of living species, and we tend to kill them without pause. New research explores the possibility that they are sentient.

As our centennial series continues, Shayla Love, a staff writer at The Atlantic, reviews the history of American interests in 'wellness.'

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fits into a long history of Americans who have waged battle against conventional medicine.

The best way to defuse Kennedy’s power is not by litigating his beliefs, but by understanding why the promise of being well has such lasting appeal.

Our culture has become obsessed with “blue zones,” where people purportedly live longer. But does the underlying research stand up to scrutiny?

Our culture has become obsessed with “blue zones,” where people purportedly live longer. But does the underlying research stand up to scrutiny?

New, non-hallucinogenic versions of psychedelics are blurring the boundaries of the drug trip.

Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign has cemented the right’s romance with hallucinogenic drugs.

The mental-health benefits of psychedelics are a draw for a growing community of people committed to reversing ageing

Suddenly unsure of both my luck and skill, I did the logical thing: learn to play the hardest card game of all time.

Balance disorders like vertigo can be devastating for patients—but they’re often invisible to the doctors who treat them.

An experiment tests whether our ears hear silent intervals in the same way they hear music or noise