Study finds those who speak two languages have brains that appear around six years younger than those who speak one Learning another language could slow ageing in the brain by up to 13 years, ...

Before intelligence can be programmed, it must first be understood as a process, one that nature has been refining across three distinct timescales. This video traces the deep logic connecting ...

Implantable devices in the brain have been used for about 30 years to assist people with disabilities in completing motor tasks. However, the devices are simply not accessible to the vast majority of ...

Some brains appear to fight back against Alzheimer's by helping immature brain cells survive damage instead of succumbing to it. Understanding this natural resilience could point researchers toward ...

Only Slate Plus members can gift Slate stories. Become a member to share 10 free articles a month. Even some young people now regard age 25 as a turning point with seemingly magical properties. In one ...

NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of ...

Active learning puts students at the center of the learning process by encouraging them to engage, reflect, and apply what they’re learning in meaningful ways. Rather than passively receiving ...

AI writing may often read poorly, but that doesn’t always mean it’s easy to catch. AI detector software looks for surface signals such as word frequency, sentence length variation, statistical ...

Researchers have spent decades—and billions of dollars—sequencing animal and crop genomes, but fungi have historically been the forgotten middle child of genomics, only noticed when they're ruining ...