Electronic forehead tattoo tracks stress on the job

"We've long monitored workers' physical health, tracking injuries and muscle strain. Now we have the ability to monitor mental strain..."

UT Austin • futurity
June 17, 2025 ~6 min

Working memory is more complicated than we thought

A new study reveals working memory is an orchestra rather than a solo act—with multiple brain regions contributing to help us maintain info.

James Devitt-NYU • futurity
June 16, 2025 ~6 min


Can a sleeping pill protect against Alzheimer’s damage?

A common sleep aid restores healthier sleep patterns and protects mice from the brain damage seen in neurodegenerative disorders.

Julia Evangelou Strait-WUSTL • futurity
June 11, 2025 ~8 min

How the brain solves complicated problems

Study shows humans flexibly deploy different reasoning strategies to tackle challenging mental tasks — offering insights for building machines that think more like us.

Anne Trafton | MIT News • mit
June 11, 2025 ~9 min

Your teens’ sleep habits may affect how their brains work

"How adolescents sleep influences how their brains function, and that influences their mental health outcomes."

Leigh Hataway U. Georgia • futurity
June 10, 2025 ~5 min

Binge drinking brake found in mouse brains, offering future path to treating alcohol abuse – new research

Current treatments for alcohol abuse are limited in their effectiveness and come with side effects. Precisely targeting the neurons involved in binge drinking could lead to better options.

Gilles Martin, Associate Professor of Neurobiology, UMass Chan Medical School • conversation
June 10, 2025 ~5 min

How the brain distinguishes between ambiguous hypotheses

Neural activity patterns can encode competing hypotheses about which landmark will lead to the correct destination.

Anne Trafton | MIT News • mit
June 6, 2025 ~8 min

Former MIT researchers advance a new model for innovation

Focused research organizations (FROs) undertake large research efforts and have begun to yield scientific advances.

Zach Winn | MIT News • mit
June 6, 2025 ~9 min


Different anesthetics, same result: unconsciousness by shifting brainwave phase

MIT study finds an easily measurable brain wave shift may be a universal marker of unconsciousness under anesthesia.

David Orenstein | The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory • mit
June 5, 2025 ~6 min

Your left and right brain hear language differently − a neuroscientist explains how

Left and right brains hear speech differently, yet how this divide forms was unclear − until mouse studies showed each hemisphere runs on its own developmental clock.

Hysell V. Oviedo, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Research, Washington University in St. Louis • conversation
June 4, 2025 ~7 min

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