Male sweat boosts women's hormone levels February 07, 2007 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 48 vote(s)
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Just a few whiffs of a chemical found in male sweat is enough to raise levels of the stress hormone cortisol in heterosexual women, according to a new study by University of California, Berkeley, scientists. | |
How Does Your Brain Respond When You Think about Gambling or Taking Risks? January 26, 2007 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 20 vote(s)
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Should you leave your comfortable job for one that pays better but is less secure? Should you have a surgery that is likely to extend your life but poses some risk that you will not survive the operation? Should you invest ... | |
 What happens when the mind wanders? January 18, 2007 | User rating: 3.5 / 5 after 36 vote(s)
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Scientists have discovered what happens in the brain when the mind wanders. Until recently, little has been known about the neural mechanisms that give the mind its ability to daydream. | |
 Conceptualizing a cyborg January 18, 2007 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 18 vote(s)
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Investigators at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine describe the basis for developing a biological interface that could link a patient's nervous system to a thought-driven artificial limb. Their ... | |
Alzheimer's gene identified: study January 14, 2007 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 18 vote(s)
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An international effort led by scientists at the University of Toronto, Columbia University and Boston University has isolated another gene responsible for Alzheimer's disease. | |
Scientists discover stage at which an embryonic cell is fated to become a stem cell January 10, 2007 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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Cambridge scientists have discovered the stage at which some of the cells of a fertilised mammalian egg are fated to develop into stem cells and why this occurs. The findings of the study, which overturn the long-held belief ... | |
Time past, time future intricately connected in the brain: study January 02, 2007 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 22 vote(s)
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Human memory, the ability to recall vivid mental images of past experiences, has been studied extensively for more than a hundred years. But until recently, there's been surprisingly little research into cognitive processes ... | |
Jefferson researchers uncover new way nature turns genes on and off December 27, 2006 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 22 vote(s)
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Peering deep within the cells of fruit flies, developmental biologists at the Kimmel Cancer Center at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia may have discovered a new way that genes are turned on and off during development. ... | |
Pain relief effectiveness down to mind-set? December 21, 2006 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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Research by the Human Pain Research Group at The University of Manchester suggests that people's responses to placebo or 'dummy' pain relief varies according to their way of thinking. | |
 Reading Shakespeare has dramatic effect on human brain December 18, 2006 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 73 vote(s)
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Research at the University of Liverpool has found that Shakespearean language excites positive brain activity, adding further drama to the bard's plays and poetry. | |
 Protein's tail may be flu virus's achilles heel December 06, 2006 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 29 vote(s)
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Striking new research from Rice University and the University of Texas at Austin (UT) has revealed a potential new target that drug makers can use to attack several strains of influenza, including those that ... | |
 Two sides of the same Coin: Money spurs changes for better and worse November 16, 2006 | User rating: 3.3 / 5 after 23 vote(s)
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Money changes everything, and that includes changing people's motivations for the better and their behavior toward others for the worse, according to a new study published in the international journal Science. | |
H5N1 mutations could help predict pandemics November 15, 2006 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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An international research team has identified genetic mutations in the H5N1 birdflu virus enabling it to infect human cells, according to Thursday's edition of the science journal Nature. | |
 Gorillas harbour AIDS-like virus, says study November 08, 2006 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 15 vote(s)
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Gorillas appear to be widely infected by a close relation to the AIDS virus, according to a study that appears on Thursday in the British journal Nature. | |
 Teenager moves video icons just by imagination October 10, 2006 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 40 vote(s)
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Now, a St. Louis-area teenage boy and a computer game have gone hands-off, thanks to a unique experiment conducted by a team of neurosurgeons, neurologists, and engineers at Washington University in St. Louis. | |
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