Your brain is constantly juggling information that arrives in a flash with thoughts that unfold over seconds, minutes, or ...

Test your problem-solving skills with these 62 lateral thinking puzzles. They’ll challenge you to think out of the box to ...

We've all been there. Moments after leaving a party, your brain is suddenly filled with intrusive thoughts about what others were thinking. "Did they think I talked too much?" "Did my joke offend them ...

A team of researchers at UCL and UCLH have identified the key brain regions that are essential for logical thinking and problem solving. The findings, published in Brain, help to increase our ...

The spark of creativity, that seemingly mysterious capacity to generate novel and valuable ideas, has intrigued humanity for centuries. Once attributed primarily to divine inspiration or innate genius ...

Does ChatGPT harm critical thinking abilities? A new study from researchers at MIT’s Media Lab has returned some concerning results. The study divided 54 subjects—18 to 39 year-olds from the Boston ...

The difference between the brain's predicted age and actual chronological age, called a brain age gap, may influence the relationship between cognitive impairment risk factors, like high blood ...

Scientists are reporting the first compelling evidence in people that cognitive training can boost levels of a brain chemical that typically declines with age. A 10-week study of people 65 or older ...

Whoever first said the brain is like a muscle was closer to the truth than they probably knew. Spend an hour wrestling with a crossword puzzle, tackling a Sudoku grid, or calculating the area under a ...

Neurosurgeon and Engineer Dr. Ben Rapoport, co-founder of Precision Neuroscience, joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about the emerging technology of brain implants and ...