Psychology Today

Loneliness Isn’t Simply About Being Alone

Loneliness is the experience of disconnection. It is a whole-body feeling shaped by biology, perception, and the structure of ...

Push for raw milk intensifies across the US, despite illness outbreaks and scientists’ warnings

Proponents of raw milk are pushing to make the unpasteurized product more widely available and easy to obtain.
Global Voices

The digital crown: Reclaiming human dignity in the age of AI

By grounding AI in the right to life, equality, speech, essentials and privacy, we ensure it serves as a mirror of our ...
Nature

Do octopus brains work like humans’ — or is there another way to be smart?

Just like vertebrates, cephalopods — such as octopuses and squid — have elaborate brains. Neuroscientists are flocking to ...
eLife

Speech is defined by theta-gamma coupled acoustic rhythms, mapped onto segregated populations in human early auditory cortex

This manuscript presents important findings that challenge traditional models of speech processing by demonstrating that theta-gamma phase-amplitude coupling in the auditory cortex is primarily a ...

Human sense of smell evolved with diets and lifestyle, genetic study suggests

From the ability to detect the smell of wet soil to the scent of ripe fruit, the human olfactory system has evolved over ...
Science Daily

The shocking origin of human eyes traces back to an ancient “cyclops”

A bizarre, cyclops-like creature from nearly 600 million years ago may hold the key to how your eyes—and even your sleep ...