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Photo: Rytis Bernotas / Getty Images Your Brain Gets Strangely Good at This When You’re Hungry
Hunger doesn’t just make you want food.
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Photo: imaginima / Getty Images A Brain ‘Pacemaker’ Could Be in Your Future If You Have This Common Condition
It already helps with Parkinson’s disease and epilepsy.
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Photo: gorodenkoff / Getty Images Scientists Discovered an Unexpected Side Effect of Working the Night Shift
It’s literally, though subtly, changing the physical structure of the brain itself.
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Photo: ALFRED PASIEKA/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Getty Images Why This Biotech Company Is Keeping Bodiless Human Brains Alive in a Lab
It’s far less supervillain-y than it sounds.
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Photo: PeopleImages / Getty Images Weird News, Dads: Your Brain Physically Changes When You Become a Father
Like how you scrambled to convert your home gym into a nursery, but inside your head.
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Photo: Todd Wright / Getty Images Eating Sugar Does Something Strange to Your Memory, and It Lasts Long After You Change Your Diet
Well, that’s not ideal.
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Photo: Anna Kamyshnikova / Getty Images What Your Brain Is Actually Doing While You Doomscroll, According to Science
As eerie as it may sound, scrolling may be shaping your brain.
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Photo: WhataWin / Getty Images Are Humans Really Born With Empty Brains? Science Has an Answer.
Maybe our brains are blank Word docs that we load with valuable information over time. Or maybe not.
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Photo: Fanatic Studio / Getty Images People Learned to Fly With VR Wings, Then Their Brains Did Something Weird
Don’t get too excited, we’re not going to be gene-splicing ourselves with eagles anytime soon.
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Photo: anand purohit / Getty Images Just One Dose of Psilocybin Does Something Good to Your Brain
One trip can change your brain, it seems.
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Photo: Phynart Studio / Getty Images Air Purifiers Do Something Cool to Your Brain After 40
Good news, they’re not just moving air around.
