A new study reveals that the brain’s basal ganglia use two distinct neural “languages” to control movement — one for learned skills and another for innate behaviors.

According to a new study by Harvard researchers, the basal ganglia—the so-called “learning machine” of the brain—speaks in two different codes: one for recently-acquired learned movements and another ...

Still, if Sheinbaum can wield her new security plan effectively enough and marshall the political will to put Mexico onto the ...

Chlöe Swarbrick’s 2025 Green Party AGM speech opens with a calm, almost meditative invitation: “I want everyone to take a deep breath… In. Out.” It is a disarming way to begin a political address, ...

The 1973 law granted the city a greater degree of self-governance. It also allows the president to federalize D.C.'s police ...

The Home Rule Act of 1973 gave residents the power to elect a city council and mayor, though the measure still left ...

House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-K.Y.) said he plans to hold a hearing with Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D),  Council Chairman Phil Mendelson (D), and Attorney General Brian ...

President Donald Trump announced he was taking “historic action to rescue our nation's capital" by officially invoking Section 740 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act, declaring a public ...

A University of Wyoming researcher led a study that used mice to show that social hierarchy involves status-dependent ...

As a teenager, you chased thrills headlong, while today you hesitate before clicking “Buy.” What if this isn’t just growing up; it is your brain rewiring itself?