Music, which has played a role in every human culture over thousands of years, exerts extraordinary power. What happens to our brain when we make music? Music certainly helps shape the brain’s structures and functions,...

Vi è mai capitato di entrare in un’agenzia di viaggi per prenotare una vacanza poco costosa al mare e di uscirne avendone prenotata una dispendiosa in Giamaica, per un «colpo basso» del...

Knowing how to wait is a virtue. Or so we repeatedly hear: "You need to be patient", "Don't be so impulsive!", "Don't be in such a hurry", "Good things come to those who...

We take risks when we engage in dangerous professions or extreme sports, when we decide how to invest our money or in which university to enrol. Whether they are natural or technological, risks are a constant...

A small macaque separated from its mother feels ill and has sleep disorders; a baby screams and shouts as soon as her mother wanders away; a lover despairs when his beloved is absent. Are these behaviours very...

One of the Mulino catalogues most successful authors leads us into a surprising voyage into - and around - the mind. The analytical, impartial scrutiny of an alien, ordered to visit Earth and write up an account...

We are, either explicitly or implicitly, "under examination" all the time with regard to our or others' expectations, or compared to ideal standards, or relative to some specific task. That is why...