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Your Work Ethic Depends on Dopamine Levels Across the Brain
Some of us work hard, others are slackers—and for a long time the reason behind radically different work ethics has been a mystery. But new research reveals that dopamine levels in three different...
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This Man Had a Taser Dart Stuck In His Brain and Didn’t Even Realise
Sometimes, academic journals have the best stories. Like last week’s issue of Forensic Science International, which describes how a man had a a drunken confrontation with the police and ended up with a...
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Even Babies Are a Little Racist
While there are no shortage of studies that suggest adults are less able to recognise individuals of different races to themselves, the latest is actually interesting: babies as young as nine months...
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We Brag Because It Feels as Good as Sex
It often seems like a lot of people sure love talking about themselves. But now scientists are working out why we love to brag, and it turns out it’s not really our fault: talking about yourself...
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How to Temporarily Blind Yourself
Have you ever wondered what it might be like to be temporarily blind? Of course you have. In fact, there is a way to trick your body into becoming blind, at least for a few minutes. Writing on...
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Your Gut Beats Your Brains in Shady Transactions
If you’ve ever felt uneasy about making a financial transaction that seemed somehow unfair, you’ll know that it’s not just your brain telling you something’s bad. Instead, if you have a shred of...
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Why Eating When You’re Depressed Makes You Eat More
In Austin Powers, Fat Bastard explains that he eats when he’s depressed, and he’s depressed because he eats. Turns out, these kinds of vicious circles of eating are due to a drug-like hit-and-comedown...
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Why Smart People Are Actually Dumb
The human brain is a weird old thing. When confronted with a new, uncertain situation, it virtually always abandons careful analysis, and instead resorts to a host of mental shortcuts—that almost...
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Your Workout Motivation Could Soon Come in Pill Form
Running, swimming, cycling: ugh, they’re all so much effort. Wouldn’t it be just great if you could magically boost your motivation to exercise? Well, soon you might be able to, because scientists have...
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It Takes the Entire Internet to Map a Mouse’s Brain
Creating a wiring diagram of the human brain’s neurons is an oft-discussed idea that remains in the realms of science fiction. Scale that problem down to tackling a mouse brain, however, and you’re in...
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Scientists Plant to Hack Stephen Hawking’s Brain
A team of Stanford scientists has revealed that it plans to sit Stephen Hawking down in a room, place a device on his head, and literally hack his brain to work out what’s going on in there. The...
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Stress-Induced Depression Is Real
Stress breeds depression. Anecdotally, we all know that’s the case, but scientifically speaking it’s been a hypothesis that has until now remained unproven. A new study, however, reveals that chronic...
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How To Keep Learning Even When You’re Asleep
Everybody knows that sleep helps our brains sort out, reorder and make sense of all the information it consumes during the day. But now a team of neuroscientists has shown that it’s possible to...
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Time Really Does Seem to Slow Down for Athletes
If you’ve ever felt like time slows down as a baseball hurtles towards you, you’re not alone. In fact, a series of new experiments suggests that our perception of time slows to varying degrees as we...
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Procrastinate By Watching This Video About the Science of Procrastination
Ironically, here’s a video about the science of procrastination that you can watch to avoid doing some other task. But it’s not quite the singularity that it could be, because it also gives you some...
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Scientists Develop Technique to Erase Your Fears
Fears are formed when we associate things with a strong, negative emotional response. Now, a team of scientists have developed a technique which lets them erase new emotional memories from the human...
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Scientists Discover Why You Remember Good News But Ignore the Bad
Humans tend to remember good news and attenuate the bad: our brains filter the two, and make us remember positive things more strongly than negative. It’s a standard human trait—and now scientists...
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These Tiny Carbon Microthreads Could Wire the Computers of the Future...
A brain-computer interface is a nice thing to dream about, but it’s not exactly around the corner. We are always getting closer, however. Newly developed carbon microthreads could serve as the...
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The Most Realistic Artificial Brain Has a Mind of Its Own
Computers can do practically anything these days, but they’re still a far cry from robotic brains that don’t just do what they’re told but actually think for themselves. The Semantic Pointer...
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Here’s the Exact Part of Your Brain That Thinks About Sex (and Cars, and Sport…)
If you’ve ever wondered which part of your brain thinks about a particular object, activity or concept, worry no longer — this interactive brain is about to answer all your questions. This online app...
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