Play buttonNeuroscience Bonobos' penchant for aquatic herbs might be why we have such big brainsmassivesci.com - Darcy Shapiro Share an interesting science story or tell a short one of your own For decades, dermatologists have instructed people enjoying the bright summer sun …
Consciousness It's time to focus on the connection between biology and consciousnessmassivesci.com - Ashley Juavinett If you cut off your thumb, you would (likely) still be conscious. If you cut off a thumb-sized part of your brainstem, however, you would almost …
Play buttonLoneliness Loneliness is an epidemic, and we can turn to technology to fix itmassivesci.com - Sophie Okolo Our world is becoming increasingly lonely. More than one-third of Americans over the age of 45 report loneliness, particularly those under 25. Nor is …
Play buttonNeuroscience Wearable brain technologies are cool, but still a potentially dangerous enigmamassivesci.com - Katherine Basil Share an interesting science story or tell a short one of your own A newborn monkey named Grady gives hope for restoring fertility to men who …
New research in sea slugs sparks controversy about the way that memories are storedmassivesci.com - Hannah Thomasy Transferring memories from one mind to another seems like something out of science fiction. But biologists from UCLA have recently found that memory …
Play button Does modern neuroscience really help us understand behavior?massivesci.com - Danbee Kim Lately, some neuroscientists have been struggling with an identity crisis: what do we believe, and what do we want to achieve? Is it enough to study …
Can MDMA help people with autism overcome social anxiety?massivesci.com - Benjamin Bell For the nightly news and cop shows, Ecstasy is the scourge of music festivals, the substance of interest in raves and DEA raids. For veterans of war, …
How does the developing brain learn to perceive the world before it can see it?massivesci.com - Maya Emmons-Bell Every day, within the belly of a towering concrete building at the University of California, Berkeley, researchers in the lab of neurobiologist Marla …
Here's what happened when researchers raised monkeys who never saw a facemassivesci.com - Daniel Bear A small patch of the brain’s surface is a battleground in a centuries-old debate: do we get our cognitive abilities from our inherited “nature” or …
How shaving mice led to an accidental discovery about our sense of touchmassivesci.com - Gregory Logan-Graf The average human lifespan is around 80 years, but the cells in our bodies live, die, and grow again along much shorter lifespans. Cells turnover at …
Massive's New Brain Waves 👋massivesci.com - Nadja Oertelt We’ve been experimenting here at Massive with new ways of working with scientists to encourage public discussion. We want to foster a community that …
Here's what happens to hamster brains when they don't get enough playmassivesci.com - Brooke Dulka Over the last half century, the US and other industrialized nations have seen a dramatic decrease in the free time that children have to play. This …
Want to learn how brains go awry? First, we must learn how they workmassivesci.com - Ashley Juavinett I still vividly remember the day in 2013 when Dr. Euiseok Kim, a postdoctoral researcher at the Salk Institute, stepped into the lowly graduate …
How scientists are mapping the brain networks that connect our childhoods to everyday behaviorsmassivesci.com - Prabarna Ganguly In his 1855 sermon, “Partaking in Other Men’s Sins,” Reverend Henry Melvill of the Church of England made a remark about the nature of human …
Listen to longer excerpts from our audio series Condensed Mattersmassivesci.com We sat down to talk about consciousness and the measurement of subjective experience with Christof Koch, President and Chief Scientific Officer of …
Neuroscientists proved the brain regenerates. Now they’re trying to figure out how.massivesci.com - Kirsi Goldynia In 1962, Dr. Joseph Altman published a study titled “Are New Neurons Formed in the Brains of Adult Mammals?” which sparked a 30 year debate by …
Neurons die with gracemassivesci.com - Massive Staff Emily Lowry, a postdoctoral researcher in the Wichterle Lab at Columbia University, sat down to discuss her research on neurodegeneration with us as …
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