A small corner of the neuroscience world was in a frenzy. It was mid-June and a scientific paper had just been published claiming that years worth of results were riddled with errors. The study had ...

Everyone's seen pretty pictures of the human brain lit up in bright reds, oranges, yellows and blues. The images are taken from brain-mapping studies that use fMRI (functional Magnetic Resonance ...

When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission to help you make sense of the world has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our ...

In fMRI, a strong magnetic field is applied to align hydrogen atoms that are otherwise randomly oriented within water nuclei of the tissue of interest. Upon applying a radio frequency magnetic pulse ...