Brain

The discovery of a new taste cell deepens our understanding of this complex and adaptive sensory system.

Becoming an expert, whether it’s in wine tasting or mathematics, alters your brain structure and perception.

How smell training can change your brain in six weeks—and why it matters.

What would a sex toy that anticipates your every whim be like?

Steve Ramirez wants to zap bad memories and upgrade good ones.

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.