Women aren’t attracted to easy-to-seduce men
Women can identify men that would be easier to pressure, deceive, seduce, or exploit, but, unlike many men, most women don't find these cues attractive. ... Read More...
neuroscience videos
Can beauty be-er ignored? The science behind the ‘beer goggles’ effect
When people are sober, they tend to be more distracted by attractive faces. When they are intoxicated, their attention becomes equally divided by both attractive and unattractive faces.... Read More...
Can you be addicted to being in love?
Researchers explore the similarities between being in love and addiction.... Read More...
Death: can our final moment be euphoric?
Study sheds light on the process of death and questions if people experience a state of euphoria during their final moments.... Read More...
Breathing may change your mind about free will
Voluntary actions are linked to the body's inner state, specifically breathing and expiration, but not heartbeat.... Read More...
Unique neuron that computes like a compass identified
Researchers have identified a distinct excitatory neuron in the retrosplenial cortex that encodes direction related information over long durations.... Read More...
Not ‘brains in a dish’: Cerebral organoids flunk comparison to developing nervous system
Hailed by many as a breakthrough for neuroscience research, a new study reports brain-in-a-dish models may not be as useful as reported previously. The study reports instead of differentiating normally into the brain's distinctive cell types, cerebral organoids often express mixed genes normally found in different kinds of cells.... Read More...
Google and Janelia researchers unveil biggest, most detailed map of the fly brain to date
FlyEM, a team of scientists from Google and the Janelia Research Campus at Howard Hughes Medical Institute, has released the most complete map of the fly brain ever created. The map pinpoints millions of connections between 25,000 neurons. The researchers have made the data free online, along with all of the tools necessary to use it.... Read More...
How coffee affects the brain, body, and health
From helping to protect against certain cancers and neurodegenerative diseases to causing anxiety and insomnia, researchers investigate how coffee affects the brain, body, and overall health.... Read More...
Internet use reduces study skills in university students
Students who spend a significant amount of their time surfing the web have lower motivation to study and reduced academic performance.... Read More...
Findings about sea star locomotion could aid in development of simpler, decentralized systems in robotics
Much of a sea star's locomotion is determined by local sensory-motor response at the tube feet level as opposed to global sensory-motor commands. It appears the nervous system relies on the physics of the interaction between the body and the environment to control movement. The findings will help with the development of new robotic systems that utilize a decentralized component to learn hierarchically.... Read More...
The first living robots
Microscopic 'xenobots' created from frog embryo stem cells promise advances from drug delivery to neurological waste clean up.... Read More...