Our brains are designed to misjudge reality. Evolution favors survival over truth, leading to predictable errors in ...

When we think of evolution, we think of slow, gradual changes in animal and plant species over millions, perhaps even hundreds of millions, of years.It took humans, for example, an estimated six ...

Recent discoveries using lab-grown brain organoids, or "mini-brains," suggest that testosterone increases brain size while ...

People have been celebrating the summer solstice with elaborate rituals since prehistoric times. But humans aren't the only ...