Brain

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... →

20/06/2015 - 13:54

The competition’s task is superficially simple, says Rosalind Potts at UCL. “We wanted to know if you had an hour to study a list of 80... →

11/06/2015 - 11:51

Spiridonov, a 30-year-old sufferer of Werdnig-Hoffman disease, has publicly volunteered to be first patient, saying he is aware of the... →

04/06/2015 - 15:45

What is now becoming clear is that some of our eye movements may actually reveal our thought process. Research published last year shows... →

24/05/2015 - 14:01

What can be done? Sternberg and others are now campaigning for a new kind of education that teaches people how to think more effectively,... →

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