Imagine a crowded room. It's a chaos of sound, teeming with indistinct voices. Scientists call this the cocktail party problem. To overcome it, most people are able to focus on a single speaker's ...

Jason Collins, the NBA's first openly gay player who went on to become a pioneer for inclusion and an ambassador for the league, has died after an eight-month battle with an aggressive form of a brain ...

This article first appeared in the Planet Money newsletter. You can sign up here. This is Part 2 of the Planet Money newsletter's series on "monopsony power." The first story centered on the labor ...

Neuroscientist Paul Nuyujukian likens the brain to a stadium full of people. To eavesdrop on the crowd you could put a microphone in the middle of the stadium. But to understand the conversations you ...

It's often called the mind's eye. "I can look at an object in the world around me, but I can also close my eyes and imagine the object," says Varun Wadia, a brain scientist at Cedars-Sinai Medical ...

Every day, we make countless choices—but are these decisions guided by desire or design? This hour, TED speakers on what shapes the food we eat, how we power our homes, and how we communicate. Guests ...

A new study finds that looking at something and imagining it triggers the same exact process in the brain. It's also very similar to the process artificial intelligence uses to create an image. OK, if ...

Do you see images in your mind? Do you have an inner monologue? Do you have memories you swear are real? Our minds have tremendous variation. This hour, insights on how our brains construct reality.

In 2013, historian Rhae Lynn Barnes was researching blackface in America at the Library of Congress when she encountered something strange: Various primary sources on the subject were listed as ...

A human brain consumes less power than a light bulb, while artificial intelligence systems guzzle electricity to do the same tasks. Now, scientists have created a highly efficient AI model that hints ...

Scientists have created an AI version of a monkey brain that recognizes images without requiring the massive computing power of existing AI systems. A human brain consumes less power than a light bulb ...

Last year, the video game industry generated around $190 BILLION in revenue. More than the music and film industry combined. How did this medium go from the arcade into a global juggernaut? That's the ...