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Psychology and Neuroscience

Forget Me Not

Beauty Is in the Eye of the Beholder, but Memorability May Be Universal

Celia Ford

Cognitive Bias

Almost All Research on the Mind Is in English. That’s a Problem

Sofia Quaglia

Music Theory

Why Songs Get Stuck in Your Head—and How to Stop Them

Amy Paturel

WIRED Podcasts

To Understand the Human Brain, Give an Octopus MDMA

Gideon Lichfield and Lauren Goode

A Snail Tale

Old Memories Can Prime Brains to Make New Ones

Yasemin Saplakoglu

Reality Check

Meet the Psychedelic Boom’s First Responders

Chris Colin

On the Nose

How a Human Smell Receptor Works Is Finally Revealed

Wynne Parry

altered egos

The Psychedelic Scientist Who Sends Brains Back to Childhood

Rachel Nuwer

Hard Fork

Gene Expression in Neurons Solves a Brain Evolution Puzzle

Allison Whitten

Neuroscience

The Quest for Injectable Brain Implants Has Begun

Grace Huckins

Doom Scrolling

Easily Distracted? You Need to Think Like a Medieval Monk

Matt Reynolds

Gotcha!

Scientific Fraud Is Slippery to Catch—but Easier to Combat

Grace Huckins

Mind's Eye

How Your Brain Distinguishes Memories From Perceptions

Yasemin Saplakoglu

Stop and Go

Your Brain Uses Calculus to Control Fast Movements

Kevin Hartnett

Spidey Sense

Sorry, Prey. Black Widows Have Surprisingly Good Memory

Max G. Levy

Neuroscience

This Brain Molecule Decides Which Memories Are Happy—or Terrible

Yasemin Saplakoglu

Brain Teaser

Neuroscientists Unravel the Mystery of Why You Can’t Tickle Yourself

Max G. Levy

Neurons

A Huge New Data Set Pushes the Limits of Neuroscience

Grace Huckins

Star Power

To Understand Brain Disorders, Consider the Astrocyte

Maggie Chen

Fit for a Queen

How to Design the Perfect Queue, According to Crowd Science

Chris Stokel-Walker