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Are you good at keeping friends?
Researchers are suggesting that there is a link between the number of friends you have and the size of the region of the brain — known as the orbital prefrontal cortex — that is found just above the eyes. A new study shows that this brain region is bigger in [...]
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Smell vs consumption.
The smell of a favorite food can literally make your mouth water. But a new study suggests that the stronger a food smells, the less of it you’ll eat—so it might be time for dieters to reach for the cured fish and curry.
The study, carried out by the Institute Food and Nutrition in [...]
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Daydreaming can make you smarter.
You probably won’t make it all the way through this article without thinking about something else. In fact, studies have found that our minds are wandering half the time, drifting off to thoughts unrelated to what we’re doing — did I remember to turn off the light? [...]
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Sleep or die – lack of sleep can have serious effects to your health.
There could be serious risks to your health if you don’t get the right amount of sleep every night. Lack of sleep can leave long-lasting effects on your body and your mind. The medical perspective is irrefutable: lack of sleep is deadly.
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Propranolol
The common heart disease drug, Propranolol, may have the unusual side-effect of combating racism, a new study suggests.
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Who wants to eat anything and stay thin?
A diet pill that someday allows people to eat as much as they want without gaining weight seems possible, based on new research into certain brain chemicals that influence how quickly we burn fat.
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Ideas happen at the darnedest times.
We all have our favorite times to power through work; some of us are up at the crack of dawn toiling away, while others feel more productive when the sun’s setting. But a new study suggests that out best ideas actually come to us when we’re not at our best.
Researchers have been [...]
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The Multi-directional Impact Protection System (MIPS) was inspired by the fluid that wraps your brain in a protective, wet blanket. It is also the name of both the technology and the company behind it and it claims to offer superior protection for your head. Major helmet manufacturers are starting to turn [...]
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This delayed auditory feedback device makes it all but impossible for a human to speak.
Humans have been inventing new uses for guns ever since the first one was invented. Some guns shoot bullets; other guns shoot lasers. But a new gun that is a little strange and unsettling is being developed by Japanese [...]
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The ride looks like an ordinary roller coaster – but is designed to kill.
A Lithuanian engineer, Julijonas Urbonas, has come up with macabre roller coaster concept where passengers are thrilled and then ‘killed’. (Pics)
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The more calories older people consumed, the more likely they were to have mild cognitive impairment.
Overeating may increase your risk of memory loss. Older people who consumed more than 2,143 calories a day had more than double the risk of a type of memory loss called mild cognitive impairment compared [...]
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Human brain cells created from skin.
Scientists in Britain are claiming to have made a major breakthrough after creating brain tissue from human skin.The researchers have for the first time generated crucial types of human brain cells in the laboratory by reprogramming skin cells, which they say could speed up [...]
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Skin cancer drug reverses Alzheimer’s in mice, is there hope for humans?
A laboratory study indicates that a drug commonly used to fight skin cancer could start to reverse Alzheimer’s disease in a matter of hours. Researchers have described the discovery as an “unprecedented finding” that holds out “the potential promise of a [...]
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UCLA neuroscientists have demonstrated that they can strengthen memory in
human patients by stimulating a critical junction in the brain.
Ever gone to the movies and forgotten where you parked the car? New UCLA research may one day help you improve your memory.
UCLA neuroscientists have demonstrated that they can strengthen memory in human patients by stimulating a [...]
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The study shows a mountain of accumulated evidence the damage physical punishment can have on a child.
Long-term developmental damage as well as a lower IQ can be a result of spanking children according to a new Canadian analysis that seeks to shift the ethical debate over corporal punishment into the medical [...]
