15-07-28 The brain's effect on other parts of the body has been well established. Now, a group that includes two University of Florida Health researchers has found that it's a two-way street: Body fat can send a signal that affects the way the brain deals wi...

15-07-07 The brain hidden inside the oldest known Old World monkey skull has been visualized for the first time. The creature's tiny but remarkably wrinkled brain supports the idea that brain complexity can evolve before brain size in the primate family tree...

15-07-01 Two passengers on a Japanese Shinkansen bullet train died after one doused himself in oil and set himself ablaze on Tuesday. 周二，日本一列新干线动车上，一位乘客将身体浸上燃油并自焚，导致包括他在内的两名乘客死亡。 37-year-old businessman Akira Takam...

15-06-23 A team of scientists and engineers at The University of Texas at Austin has identified the first sensor of the Earth's magnetic field in an animal, finding in the brain of a tiny worm a big clue to a long-held mystery about how animals' internal com...

15-06-23 Should you have any questions during the exam, just raise your hand. This should cause enough blood to flow to your brain to answer it yourself....

15-06-08 baby-kisser 从字面上看，该词是吻婴儿的人。但实际上这是送给政坛人士的一种特别称谓，即政客的别名。Baby-kisser们为了争取民众支持、捞取选票，不惜花大量的时间与精力去讨好民众，时时刻刻笑脸相迎，见到母亲们抱着baby时也会故作姿态抢过baby来kiss一番，以示与民...

15-06-04 You might not need to remember those complicated e-mail and bank account passwords for much longer. According to a new study, the way your brain responds to certain words could be used to replace passwords. In Brainprint, a newly published study in...

15-05-21 A team of New York University neuroscientists has identified a part of the brain exclusively devoted to processing speech. Its findings point to the superior temporal sulcus (STS), located in the temporal lobe, and help settle a long-standing debate...

15-05-04 What happens to an astronaut's brain during a mission to Mars? Nothing good. It's besieged by destructive particles that can forever impair cognition, according to a UC Irvine radiation oncology study appearing in the May 1 edition of Science Advanc...

15-04-30 When consumers taste cheap wine and rate it highly because they believe it is expensive, is it because prejudice has blinded them to the actual taste, or has prejudice actually changed their brain function, causing them to experience the cheap wine...