Or to be more precise, Dr. Tracy Alloway of the Un...  ...mmunications are too brief to require substantial brain activity: Dr. Alloway has developed a working...

Why is it so uncomfortable to stand really close to a stranger? Sure, there are the potentially icky things. Sometimes an elevator car is so crowded that you can smell a fellow rider's shampoo or chewing gum (or worse)....

It's common sense to think that teenage recklessne...  ...radoxical result - the more mature the teenager's brain , the more reckless they become:In a paper just pu...  ...sk-averse youths. White matter is essentially the brain 's wiring — the neural strands that connect...  ...hite matter is important bec...

Research shows that playing the video game Tetris...  ...at playing the video game Tetris can improve your brain ’s efficiency and will thicken some areas of the...  ...for three months and looked for changes in their brain scans. Three months of Tetris playing had two di...  ...of Tetris playing had two dist...

A new study shows that elderly people who are over...  ...o are overweight or obese have significantly less brain tissue than those of normal weight. The differenc...  ...rment was excluded from the final sample. "The brains of obese people looked 16 years older than their...  ...enior author of a study publi...

Looking for something delicious and creepy? Tr...  ...mething delicious and creepy? Try these fantastic brain cupcakes. The flavor sounds blissful, combining c...  .... The flavor sounds blissful, combining chocolate brains

You may not have the psionic power of X-Men's Prof...  ...hat can be controlled by thought.The device scans brain waves through sensors in a cap. In 125 thousandth...  ...ors in a cap. In 125 thousandths of a second, the brain -controlled wheelchair can turn a thought into a c...

12-year-old Nicholas Rossi fell off his bike in Ma...  ...al hospital, where Dr. Rob Carson saw the child's brain was bleeding. The hospital did not have the equip...  ...ding. The hospital did not have the equipment for brain surgery, so he ordered a drill from the maintenan...

Why are teenagers so lousy at chores? Is it lazine...  ...n "cognitive limitations." [Teenagers'] brains can't multitask as well as those of the taskmaste...  ...as those of the taskmasters. [...]The part of the brain responsible for multitasking continues to develop...

Gender equality and political correctness aside, M...  ...ependent response in starvation could manifest in brain cells. They grew neurons taken separately from ma...