RICHMOND, Va. -- "Battle of the Brains," a weekly academic challenge that brings together teams of students from across Central Virginia's communities, airs Saturdays at 10 a.m. on WTVR CBS 6. You can ...

Why do some people cling so tightly to rigid worldviews, even when all the evidence proves them wrong? That is the question at the center of “The Ideological Brain,” a new book by neuroscientist Dr.

Babies start processing language before they are born, a new study suggests. A research team in Montreal has found that newborns who had heard short stories in foreign languages while in the womb ...

In 2025, researchers Willis Klein, Suzanne Wood, and Jennifer Bartz published findings on how gaslighters use the brain’s dependence on relationships to upend the way we co-create reality. We depend ...

Science books, especially those written by scientists, sometimes have the reputation of being dry, dull and difficult. Perhaps they are thought of as thinly disguised textbooks, something to learn ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — A local AI entrepreneur is teaming up with a brain researcher to test whether studying damaged brains — those of stroke patients — can help create smaller, more energy-efficient ...

If you and your best friend love laughing at the same sitcoms or tearing up during the same documentaries, science says that’s no coincidence. A new study has found that people whose brains react in ...

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Jason Riley and Dan Henninger. Bored at a dinner party or work meeting but don’t want to come off as rude by pulling out your ...

Back-to-school time has arrived again, with the usual debates about cell phones, with many schools trying a complete ban. That’s a good start, given what we know about the ill effects of smartphones ...

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The assassination of Charlie Kirk on the campus of Utah Valley University is a human tragedy first: Two young children lost their father; a wife lost her husband. But it is also a cultural tragedy, ...

It’s a late-night debate in college dorms across the world: Is my red the same as your red? Two neuroscientists weigh in on this classic “Intro to Philosophy” puzzler in research published September 8 ...