What if pretending that you’re younger could really make you appear younger?

In February 2015, Cecilia Bleasdale, a Scottish mom, snapped a photo of the dress she planned to wear to her daughter Grace’s wedding. She posted it on Facebook, and opinions immediately split in two. Some swore the dress was blue and black, others white and gold. Within hours, the debate exploded on Twitter, news outlets piled on, and celebrities joined in.

Researchers shot lasers into brain cells and triggered illusions on demand—a breakthrough that’s rewriting how we see the world.

Personal Perspective: The dramatic decrease in NIH grants will destroy academic science.

All around us is a rich world for us to experience. Inside our minds, we have our own understanding of the world, ourselves, and everything in it. How does the brain do any of this? There’s all this information that we have access to in our minds, but how does the brain represent information? What does information in the brain even mean? These are some of the greatest questions that humans have ever pondered, but neuroscience has made great strides in answering them.

Your blood sugar level and your brain health are more closely tied than you might have realized. And it turns out that the area of the brain that is involved with memory—the same one impacted in Alzheimer’s disease—can become impaired as a result of uncontrolled type 2 diabetes (T2D), according to a recent study by University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) researchers published in the Journal of Neuroscience.

One brain area controlling another is the desired outcome of therapy.

Neuroscience can explain the disconnect between how much time we think has passed and how much actually has. Our brains create unique network states through drift, helping working and autobiographical memory. Reading about the barrage of news events lately has tricked our brains into thinking more time has passed.