A team of researchers can detect how taste is encoded in patterns of neural activity in the human brain. That means they can basically read your mind when it comes to food. Tastants in the mouth…

A study has found new evidence linking genetic factors associated with autism to better cognitive ability in people who do not have the condition - which means like many things in genetics it could…

A trained scent dog has been found to accurately distinguish between benign and cancerous urine samples of thyroid cancer patients a terrific 88.2 percent of the time, according to a new study. That…

Modern smartphones are wonderful devices - they let us check email we won't reply to until we get to a desktop, they take pictures and sometimes they even make a poor quality phone call. But that…

A small experiment has found that people are quicker to categorize a face as being male when it is shown to the left side of the brain.  The conclusion was drawn from an analysis of…

People with diabetes are prone to anxiety and depression but others with chronic diseases that require similar levels of management suffer from anxiety and depression less. Why that might be is…

75 percent of movies released to theaters lose money, making the film industry even less able to pick winners in the private sector than the government. Surely there has to be a better method than…

A new paper challenges a long-accepted hypothesis about the role the hippocampus plays in our unconscious memory.  For decades, neuroscientists have believed that this part of the brain is not…

Though adopting a whole-food diet has become popular in some circles, is it really going to help you? Perhaps, perhaps not.  One reason to err on the side of caution and not chase diet fads is…

Drinking coffee may  lower risk of developing multiple sclerosis (MS), according to a new paper out today For the study, researchers looked at a Swedish study of 1,629 people with MS and 2,807…