You encounter thousands of faces each day, and in a split second, your brain effortlessly sorts through them all. Whether it’s spotting your best friend across a crowded room or instinctively recognizing a familiar celebrity on television, this remarkable feat happens faster than you can blink. Yet behind this seemingly simple task lies one of ...
Imagine your brain as a busy theater where the most extraordinary performances unfold every single night. You drift off to sleep thinking your mind finally gets a rest, yet something fascinating happens. Your brain actually becomes more active, creating vivid, sometimes bizarre narratives that can feel more real than reality itself. Sleep researchers have discovered ...
Your senses might not work exactly the way you think they do. Beyond the traditional five senses you learned about in school, scientists have discovered fascinating mechanisms that control how you perceive the world around you. Research is revealing hidden sensory systems working behind the scenes, cross-connections between different types of perception, and surprising ways ...
Open your eyes and a storm of invisible decisions erupts: your brain sorts wavelengths, guesses at shadows, corrects for weird lighting, and then quietly hands you a world that feels stable and true. Color isn’t merely a coat of paint on reality; it is an ongoing negotiation between light and the mind. That’s why ...
We treat laughter like an afterthought – background noise to jokes, sitcoms, and awkward meetings – yet it behaves more like a social reflex than a private emotion. Scientists now see it as a biological broadcast that moves through groups with astonishing speed, reshaping chemistry in our brains and choreography in our bodies. The ...
Every earworm, stadium anthem, and quiet lullaby is more than a tune – it’s a full-brain event hiding in plain sight. Scientists now treat music like a precision tool for probing how prediction, pleasure, memory, and movement converge in the mind. The mystery is delicious: why does a simple chord change tug at our ...
Your brain is constantly buzzing with nearly unfathomable activity every moment of your life. The brain has 86 billion neurons, which are each connected to 10,000 others. These connections are the foundation of everything you learn and remember. On any given day, you process vast amounts of sensory information through your various senses. By understanding ...
You walk into the kitchen and suddenly can’t remember why you came there. Someone’s name sits right on the tip of your tongue but won’t surface. You know you learned that fact in school, but it’s vanished completely. Welcome to the universal human experience of forgetting. Though forgetting might feel like a malfunction in your ...
Every choice you make, from a morning coffee to a career move, travels through an invisible assembly line in your head. Signals race, memories weigh in, and emotions lobby hard, all within fractions of a second. The mystery is that it often feels effortless, even when the stakes are enormous. Scientists are currently mapping that ...
For decades, near-death experiences have sat at the edge of science like a lighthouse seen through fog – bright, haunting, and hard to measure. People describe tunnels of light, panoramic life reviews, and a feeling of leaving the body, yet the biology has seemed elusive. In the last few years, though, hospitals have begun ...
Linnea H, BSc Sociology
