Associating feelings of pleasure with dopamine us a common mistake. The process involves many other elements. Humans permanently seek pleasure and the continuous generation of expectations, surprise, and desire.
Understanding the discourse of aging analyses different perspectives on ageing in the media and mass culture.
Review of the book The end of everything (astrophysically speaking), by the Australian astrophysicist Katie Mack, on the possible ends of the universe.
This book is both a biography and an inspiring reflection on the sexism of the scientific world in recent decades
Oral storytelling may have had evolutionary benefits at both the individual and group levels, and may have conferred evolutionary advantages.
An epidemic like the one we have unfortunately experienced can bring out people's worst fears. Cinema and literature have successfully used fear to write scripts in which an epidemic is the heart of the story or the underlying excuse.
Once again this year, science and literature merge in this tenth edition of the Inspiraciencia short story competition. Before 7 June, those who want to participate can submit their short science-based stories in Spanish, Catalan, Gallician, and Basque.
Alice goes on a journey during which peculiar characters tell her what to eat or drink. Then, strange things happen. Doesn't all this seem like a drug-induced psychedelic journey?
The new Mètode monograph, Narrating health, shows the different ways in which the literature connects medicine and health.
Literature constitutes an important educational element that can improve the doctor-patient relationship because it facilitates better understanding of illnesses.