Brain

George Church and Ramez Naam on the limitations of evolution, the power of matchmaking, and why we should send single-cell computers into deep space.

Nicole Prause left academia to study sexuality without institutional limits. Now she’s challenging orthodox views of climax and pornography.

Neuroscientist David Eagleman aims to give deaf people a new way to hear—and upgrade everyone else’s senses too. by Steven Kotler

Scientists and other creators tell us about the developments they’re watching for and the conversations they’ll be starting.

Space brain and other cosmic problems demand new kinds of pharmaceutical protection.

No more metal: Living electrodes promise safer, better ways to fix injuries and disease and grow new links between man and machine.

Sure, your brain is more dynamic than once thought. But harnessing those powers is tricky.

A professor in China builds a brain-machine interface that keeps humans fully in charge.

Karl Deisseroth developed astounding technologies that light up the brain and render it transparent. Yet some of his most compelling breakthroughs still come from listening to patients.

An electrical-stimulation technology with promising new uses comes from a dark age that still has a lot to teach us.

Forget what you may have heard about neural networks in software. This startup is making a computer with living neurons.

Michael Pollan explores the neuroscience of psychedelics in this excerpt from his new book.

With better CPR techniques, more people might live to tell the tale of what happens right before everything slips away.

The same device that is driving you crazy could hold the keys to solving our mental health crisis.

Emotions don’t get in the way of rational thought, says Antonio Damasio. They make it possible.