Brain

04/11/2016 - 16:44

We are talking in the living room of his son Victor, who is a mathematician at the University of Oxford, during a flying visit from his... →

23/10/2016 - 13:59

These are not rare events. Every time you have a conversation, you are inviting someone to ghost-write bits of your autobiography. It... →

05/10/2016 - 14:30

Learning math and then science as an adult gave me passage into the empowering world of engineering. But these hard-won, adult-age changes... →

08/09/2016 - 11:58

The political lens There is now a mountain of evidence to show that politics doesn’t just help predict people’s views on some scientific... →

10/08/2016 - 14:56

“Placebo is a complex phenomenon in which the patient’s expectation of recovery affects his state of health,” she continued. “Expectation... →

07/08/2016 - 13:12

Why is it that we get motion sickness when we’re traveling in a plane or a car? We haven’t evolved, obviously, to ride in vehicles; that’s... →

21/07/2016 - 12:37

For the study, scientists tapped a dataset of 1,187 healthy children and young adults ranging in age from 3 to 20 years old for whom brain-... →

21/07/2016 - 12:17

So can a zest for garlic be learned prenatally? Peter Hepper of the University of Belfast decided to find out. He and colleagues tested... →

02/06/2016 - 12:24

Sixth sense? Most Americans believe in the supernatural. In fact, one survey found that almost one-third of people believe in extrasensory... →

28/05/2016 - 13:17

“We focused on SLC6A4, which encodes the serotonin transporter, because we already know a good deal about the importance of this gene and... →

13/05/2016 - 17:51

Nevertheless, numerous lines of research, particularly on athletes, have given us compelling insights into the physiological and... →

22/04/2016 - 15:28

One, somewhat humbling, explanation is that we are all “cognitive misers” – to save time and energy, our brains use intuition rather than... →

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