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Neuroscience
Plain-language explainers about neuroscience, written to make useful context easier to find and understand.
Browse articles that connect neuroscience to technology, health, infrastructure, money, science, and everyday decisions.
Why Music Gives You Chills — The Neuroscience of Frisson
That shiver down your spine during a powerful piece of music has a name and a neurological explanation. Only about two-thirds of people experience it, and the difference matters.
Why Do We Yawn? Scientists Have Been Wrong About This for a Long Time.
The low-oxygen explanation for yawning was taught for decades and is almost certainly false. The current best hypothesis involves brain temperature. Here's the evidence trail.
The Placebo Effect Is Real. The Explanation Is More Interesting Than You Think.
Placebos aren't just people imagining they feel better. They produce measurable biological changes. The science of why is reshaping how we think about medicine.
How Anesthesia Actually Works (Doctors Are Still Not Entirely Sure)
General anesthesia has been used for over 170 years. It works reliably and safely. And yet the precise mechanism by which it renders a person unconscious remains genuinely unsolved.
We Only Use 10% of Our Brain. No We Don't. Here's Where That Came From.
One of the most persistent myths in popular science. We traced the origin as far back as the evidence goes — and the real story is more interesting than the myth.