Brain

05/02/2016 - 13:02

Why are young men like this? Part of it seems to depend on testosterone, acting on their brain during early foetal life. Exposure in the... →

30/12/2015 - 13:55

How do we make this astonishing journey? Until recently, neuroscientists were in the dark about this ‘first age of the brain’. But the... →

21/12/2015 - 14:35

Participants with high television viewing (more than three hours per day for more than two-thirds of the visits) during 25 years were more... →

21/11/2015 - 14:10

Romanes waited until his dog was distracted by another hound, then darted away in a mad zigzag. When the dog returned, it realised Romanes... →

05/11/2015 - 15:29

Bumpology The story starts with a collection of dozens of tiny ceramic heads – all different shapes and sizes – kept at the Science Museum... →

15/10/2015 - 14:53

That may sound alarming, but it has long been known that our bodies are really a mishmash of many different organisms. Microbes in your gut... →

22/09/2015 - 11:52

Neuroscientist Miguel Nicolelis, who led the research, published earlier this year, has a name for this remarkable collaboration: a "... →

18/08/2015 - 20:03

The clock is specially designed to allow participants to discern sub-second changes. This clock has a single dot, which travels around the... →

18/08/2015 - 19:36

Among the biggest surprises contained within the genome—eliciting exclamation point–ridden e-mails from cephalopod researchers—is that... →

15/08/2015 - 12:59

So rather than flee, she decided to immerse herself in the thrill of the chase. “All fear had departed; the comfortable feeling of great... →

10/08/2015 - 11:31

The clock is specially designed to allow participants to discern sub-second changes. This clock has a single dot, which travels around the... →

05/08/2015 - 11:52

We'll explain these visual thresholds initially through the lens – pun intended – of what many of us first think of when we consider vision... →

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