You look up from your phone screen and suddenly realize you weren't thinking about anything. It's not a lapse in memory or a daydream; it's literally a moment when you're not thinking of anything at ...

New evidence finds that the MIND diet lives up to its name, even when it is started later in life. Middle-aged and older participants in a large, long-term study were less likely to develop ...

Newly declassified records on the CIA's infamous MKULTRA program have been published by the National Security Archive and ProQuest. The collection, which was released on Monday, includes over 1,200 ...

As soon as I hear the sound of waves crashing onto the sand, my shoulders relax. I walk ankle-deep into the water, and my jaw unclenches. My breath naturally slows, and I start to feel lighter, even ...

Wireless mind control is here. But you don't need to panic just yet. In a groundbreaking development, scientists from South Korea have invented remote control technology that enables brain ...

Comedian Steven Wright deadpanned, “I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering.” With that quip, he encapsulated the universal human experience of mind wandering. Our minds are never idle.

Research shows that cognitive flexibility—the changing of one’s mind—is vital in a number of areas: decision making, learning, adapting to changing circumstances, creative expression. It tends to be ...

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Still, critics claim that we might lose the “last frontier of privacy” if we allow these technologies to progress without thoughtful oversight. Even if you don’t subscribe to this flavor of ...

In the 1980s and 1990s, mixtapes were all the rage. For many people, putting a collection of songs that themselves spoke to the listener was the next best thing. Some songs just say everything right.