#neuroscience

Chronic pain is sometimes a message that keeps arriving after the emergency is over — and that tells you something strange about how signals become sensations.

The enteric nervous system in your gut processes information, makes decisions, and holds memory — without asking your brain first.

In the 1960s, scientists trained flatworms, ground them up, and fed them to other flatworms — and the second worms learned faster. What happened next is weirder than the experiment.

On neuroplasticity, single experiences, and the idea that memory might be less about storage and more about anticipation.

Impossible colors — hues that can't exist in the physical world but that some people can perceive — are a small, strange window into the gap between representation and reality.

On phantom melodies, auditory pareidolia, and the brain's compulsion to finish what was never started.