Stressful study sessions help us pass exams, but curiosity promotes long-term understanding and information retention. In A ...

The UA College of Science “Mind and Brain” lecture series that’s been filling up Centennial Hall continues this evening with “The Making of a Mind,” presented by LouAnn Gerken, a professor of ...

talked about the “lowly origins” of humanity, and he was just talking apes. Nick Strausfeld, in the first of the UA College of Science “Evolving Brain” lectures, traces development of the human brain ...

Shaun Nichols, a professor of philosophy, will discuss: Does morality come from the emotions, or from rational thought? Philosophers have struggled with this question for centuries. Recent work in ...

The human brain solves problems in a nearly perfect way, if you observe the biology of it from the perspective of a physicist. Biophysicist William Bialek, the final speaker in the “Evolving Brain” ...

As part of the yearlong celebration of 150 years of Biological Sciences at Purdue, we are honored to welcome Dr. Massimo Scanziani, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and Professor at the ...

Addiction is one of the most intensely studied conditions in modern medicine, yet even with high‑resolution brain scans and genetic tools, scientists still cannot fully explain why some people get ...