A Western reseach team set out to determine if they could use a technique called intermittent hypoxia to boost executive funciton.

September is Pain Awareness Month, and more than 51 million Americans report living with chronic pain. Over the past couple of decades, experts say increased prescriptions of opioid medications were ...

Interoception is how your brain senses and responds to what’s going on inside your body. “It’s how we know when we’re hungry, thirsty, anxious, or even need to take a deep breath,” says Wen G. Chen, ...

Have you ever heard the expression, “Use it or lose it”? Nowhere does this idiom apply more than to the brain. Sure, the brain isn’t a muscle, but to keep it sharp, it still needs consistent neural ...

There’s a common theory that we only use a small part of our brain’s capacity—about 10%. However, no scientific studies support this claim. So, is it possible to determine how much of our brain we ...

An MIT study found that using gen AI to write an essay kind of defeated the purpose of writing an essay. Jon covers artificial intelligence. He previously led CNET's home energy and utilities category ...