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Adulthood pleasure experiences get affected by childhood traumas you face. Can the brain be rewired to change behaviour? Neuroscience explainsNew research suggests childhood trauma may be linked to difficulties experiencing pleasure in adulthood through changes in brain pathways i...- Science says crows remember faces of people who wronged them, here’s what their brains reveal about animal intelligenceWhen a crow responds to a specific person years after a significant encounter, its behavior suggests that the bird may have retained a memo...
- Science says some objects can look like they’re moving when they are perfectly still, here’s how your eyes get fooledEven when you appear to stare steadily at an object, your eyes are constantly making tiny involuntary movements known as fixational eye mov...
- In 2003, researchers found freshwater snails had mated in space; their gravity-sensing statoconia were 50% larger by volume than matched ground controlsExperiments conducted aboard the Space Shuttle demonstrated that pond snails bred in microgravity possessed larger gravity-sensing structur...
- Psychology says people who recognize friends by their footsteps may have highly tuned social memoryRecognizing a friend by the sound of their footsteps is a small example of a broader psychological ability: the brain can build detailed re...
- Psychology says people who keep stubbing their toes may be responding to more than clumsinessPeople who frequently stub their toes may not simply be “bad at walking.” Their experiences can reflect a fascinating interaction between a...
- In a 2026 study, scientists scanned the brains of 12 awake dogs as they viewed human faces showing happiness, anger, fear and sadness, and found specialized neural activity for smiles while dogs could distinguish fear from anger and sadnessNew findings suggest that dogs have developed specialized brain regions for identifying human emotions. Their brain activities reveal notic...
- ‘AI introduces a new set of problems’ in cybersecurity: Securonix CEO Toby WeissSecuronix CEO Toby Weiss believes AI will not simplify the fragmented cybersecurity landscape. He notes that enterprises are rapidly adopti...
- Your 'Gut' may play a bigger role in Alzheimer’s disease than scientists once thought - New research reveals a potential linkNew research links gut bacteria molecule ImP to Alzheimer's disease changes. Higher ImP levels correlate with poorer cognitive scores and b...
- 8-hour sleep rule is old and ‘too simple’, research says. Find out how much sleep do humans actually needThe popular eight-hour sleep rule may not be a fixed requirement for every adult, according to recent research. Studies of pre-industrial s...
- Neurosurgeon says one habit can ‘train’ your brain to help you win in life: ‘Everytime you rehearse…’You can indeed ‘manifest’ your dreams to come true. According to neuroscience, there is a process called neuroplasticity, which ‘trains’ th...
- Six Flags roller coaster brain surgery explained: How two women ended up needing emergency treatmentA popular Six Flags Magic Mountain roller coaster is closed after two women suffered severe brain hemorrhages. California safety regulators...
- A neuroscientist dropped people from a 150-foot tower in Dallas to find out if time really slows down when you think you're about to dieA fascinating study investigated whether fear alters our perception of time during intense moments. When volunteers simulated a fall from a...
- Scientists injected cells from woman’s leg into her eyes to help restore her vision: How 'world-first experiment' went & what doctors discoveredScientists injected mitochondria taken from a woman’s leg into both of her eyes in an experimental attempt to boost energy production in da...
- 17-year-old Connecticut student found 2 FDA-approved drugs that could help fight Alzheimer’s: How his surprising discovery worksA 17-year-old Connecticut student, Leon Wang, identified two FDA-approved lung-scarring drugs that reduced Alzheimer’s-linked cellular dama...
- Psychology says people who recognize songs from the first few notes may have highly efficient auditory pattern recognitionPeople who recognize songs from the first few notes may be demonstrating an impressive form of auditory pattern recognition supported by lo...
- Dogs may read your emotions better than you think as brain scans reveal how canines distinguish happiness, fear and sadness in humansNew research reveals dogs' brains process human emotions distinctly. Happy faces activate specific brain regions associated with reward pro...
- In 2002, a salesman started seeing maths everywhere after being beaten up outside a bar. The violent attack gave him acquired savant syndrome, says scienceA former futon salesman from Tacoma had little interest in mathematics before a violent attack outside a bar in 2002. After suffering a bra...
- Neurologists warn people with one habit are three times more likely to have a stroke. Hint: It’s not smoking or alcohol addictionSome dietary and lifestyle habits have a high correlation to strokes – such as a poor diet filled with processed foods and heavily fried di...
- From gut bacteria to the brain, a chemical, sodium butyrate traveled through the bloodstream after traumatic injury, where 4 months of treatment helped scientists reduce inflammation, protect brain cells and made seizures less frequentPost-traumatic epilepsy treatment: Researchers are exploring sodium butyrate to prevent post-traumatic epilepsy after brain injuries. This ...
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