Musical cartoons can boost verbal intelligence?  We'll hiatus Science 2.0 and start watching "Phineas&Ferb" right now. Researchers writing in Psychological Science say pre-schoolers…

Researchers recently monitored the behavior of thousands of people as they sang along to more than a thousand tunes and say they have uncovered the common traits in songs that are most 'catchy'. That…

After a thorough two-year investigation, researchers at UC San Diego and the University of Oregon have identified over 70 genes that play a role in the repair of neurons after injury, specifically…

Think someone is bored if they yawn? Perhaps their brain is just overheating. A study led by Andrew Gallup, a postdoc in Princeton University's Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, says…

The number of individuals who are obese and suffer with its associated health problems has continued to rise, even being called an epidemic. Is it genetics?  The dream of cheap food finally…

You can't read a book like the excellent Conversations on Consciousness (interviews with experts in the field of consciousness), by Susan Blackmore (not pictured above), without having…

A study on activity in a the parahippocampal cortex (PHC) found people will remember a visual scene when the brain is more active. The PHC, which has previously been linked to recollection of visual…

In patients with seriously altered states of consciousness, there is also the puzzle about dreaming.   Do ‘vegetative’ patients (also known in clunkier, politically correct fashion as patients…

Most of us don’t have a problem attributing emotions to primates, dogs, horses and other vertebrates. But what about invertebrates? That seems less obvious. They have smaller, less complex brains,…

For the crowd watching an Illinois high school football game last fall, it was a sickening feeling watching one of their Unity High School cornerbacks collapse to the ground after delivering a heads-…