🧠 Neuroscience

• 💀Dying Fast and Slow

  Explore the borders of life and death as scientists debate the intricate dance of dying cells at a groundbreaking NIH workshop.

• 🧠Positive Neuroscience

  How our brains are wired for joy, resilience, and well-being.

• 🧬What Is Epigenetics?

  How epigenetics shapes our biology beyond DNA, influencing traits across generations through mechanisms like DNA methylation.

• 🌀What Does a 1,800-year-old Buddhist Classic Have to Say about Quantum Physics and the Nature of Reality?

  A renowned physicist discusses the philosophy of emptiness with the Dalai Lama’s doctor

• 🧠The Neuroscience of Self-Determination

  An ambitious new project aims to expand the scientific understanding of human autonomy

• 🌌Exploring the Big Questions with Aeon

  A new two-year project will fund dozens of essays and longform pieces published in one of the most innovative and engaging journals of science and thought.

• 🧠How Do Brains Represent Beliefs About God?

  Explore how brains visualize God versus other figures through cutting-edge neuroimaging and machine learning techniques.

• 🧠Examining the Neuroscience of Free Will

  Exploring the enigma of free will, a team of neuroscientists embarks on a groundbreaking $7 million study to decode the neuroscience behind our decisions.

• 🧠New $5.34 Million Grant to Examine the Neuroscience of Free Will

  Exploring the enigma of free will, a team of neuroscientists embarks on a groundbreaking $7 million study to decode the neuroscience behind our decisions.

• 🧬Molecular insights into historical constraints on evolution

  Replaying evolution’s early days in a lab — with resurrected, billion-year-old genes

• 🤔The Virtue of Curiosity

  A quartet of researchers are using computer games and brain scans to measure — and manipulate — our desire to know.

• 🧠The neurostimulation of belief

  Using brain stimulation to test the relationship between intuition and religious belief

• 🎓High school debate turns to the Big Questions

  Does science leave room for free will? High school debaters have some ideas.