Preschool years are a period of rapid brain development. By age 5, children's brains are approximately 90 percent of adult-sized brains. How to boost young children's brain growth.

A new study shows how math helps explain why babies nap erratically, teens stay up late, and older adults wake earlier.

A painless, noninvasive brain stimulation technique can significantly improve how young adults learn math, my colleagues and I found in a recent study. In a paper in PLOS Biology, we describe how ...

Wonder why babies nap on some days but not on others? Or why older people wake up earlier? Mathematical modeling of sleep ...

Putting your weight into opening a door (say, with your shoulder) is easier than using your hands. Sliding heavy cardboard ...

This brain teaser is a quick test of intelligence. Who do you think will fall? Set a timer for 12 seconds and get down to ...

The authors suggest that these results hint at the viability of using brain stimulation to aid math learning in people struggling with biological disadvantages.

A new study shows subtle brain stimulation can boost college students’ math abilities. Researchers at the University of Surrey call it a safe, painless, and non-invasive brain stimulation method that ...

The success of "contingency management" belies the notion that addiction is an uncontrollable disease caused by a drug's ...

Apps that train cognitive skills claim to help children learn, and some research backs that up. But there are concerns cognitive training hinders reading development.

In what definitely wasn’t on our list of expectations for this year, researchers used a method called transcranial random noise stimulation (tRNS) may help the brain learn math faster. This method, ...

Supply chains consist of imperfect humans struggling to make perfect decisions. In the end, though, it all comes down to a ...