Our brain waves can align when we work and play closely together. The phenomenon, known as interbrain synchrony, suggests that collaboration is biological. The post The Social Benefits of Getti...
https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-social-benefits-of-getting-our-brains-in-sync-20240328/
Birds flock. Locusts swarm. Fish school. From chaotic assemblies of life, order somehow emerges. In this episode, co-host Steven Strogatz interviews the evolutionary ecologist Iain Couzin about h...
https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-is-flocking-like-computing-20240328/
Electroconvulsive therapy is highly effective in treating major depressive disorder, but no one knows why it works. New research suggests it may restore balance between excitation and inhibition ...
https://www.quantamagazine.org/brains-background-noise-may-explain-value-of-shock-therapy-20240318/
Altering a protein in the neurons that coordinate a rattlesnake’s movement made a slow slither neuron more like a speedy rattle neuron, showing one way evolution can generate new ways of moving...
https://www.quantamagazine.org/tiny-tweaks-to-neurons-can-rewire-animal-motion-20240311/
How did cells evolve a process to end their own lives? Recent research suggests that apoptosis, a form of programmed cell death, first arose billions of years ago in bacteria with a primitive soc...
https://www.quantamagazine.org/cellular-self-destruction-may-be-ancient-but-why-20240306/