Brain Science
Understanding the brain - the human brain in particular
May 17, 2011
May 17, 2011
"An emerging technology called optogenetics, which can control electrical activity in a few carefully selected neurons, may hold new insights into an array of disorders."
May 8, 2011
"Scientists find clues to how anesthesia numbs the brain"
Apr 25, 2011
"Could the evolution of the human mind, and its ability to create a potentially infinite variety of thoughts, be attributed to the formation of a 'super-brain'? One theory about this collective mind centers around and event that took place in Africa no later than 75,000 years ago."
Apr 23, 2011
"New research suggests there is much more to those stickers on the backs of college football helmets than previously thought."
Apr 17, 2011
"A tiny chip implant is enabling paralysed and injured people to move objects by the power of their thoughts -- and, in time, researchers hope it could help them walk again"
Mar 22, 2011
"A clock face, advanced neurosurgery--and startling philosophical questions about the decision to act"
Mar 17, 2011
"Device maps the chemistry of the whole brain in moving animals."
Mar 17, 2011
"Scientists use light to make worms start, stop and lay eggs"
Investigating why human beings see natural events as omens