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What’s Up With That: Your Best Thinking Seems to Happen in the Shower
You’re in the shower. The water sounds like a gentle, rainy static, and feels like a Plinko massage. You’ve just started to lather up and suddenly, you’re hit with ...Full Article
Do People Only Use 10 Percent of Their Brains?
The human brain is complex. Along with performing millions of mundane acts, it composes concertos, issues manifestos and comes up with elegant solutions to equations. It’s the wellspring of ...Full Article
How Does Sugar Affect Your Brain? Turns Out In A Very Similar Way To Drugs And Alcohol
Sugar. Just the thought of a sweet snack can make even the most hardcore dieter weak at the knees. The promise of a single fresh-baked chocolate chip cookie can ...Full Article
Our brains judge a face’s trustworthiness—even when we can’t see it
Our brains are able to judge the trustworthiness of a face even when we cannot consciously see it, a team of scientists has found. Their findings, which appear in ...Full Article
Blood test can predict risk of suicide
Researchers at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, US, found that variations in a single gene can be used to predict if someone is likely to take their own lifeFull Article
Fear can be passed on from mother to child, a study shows
Babies can smell their mothers’ fears and learn to be wary of the same things just a few days after being born. Full Article
Neymar’s brain on auto-pilot – Japan neurologists
Brazilian superstar Neymar's brain activity while dancing past opponents is less than 10 percent the level of amateur players, suggesting he plays as if on auto-pilot, according to Japanese ...Full Article
Study Reveals How Sleep Removes Toxic Waste from the Brain
Although we don’t know exactly why, there is no question that sleep is crucial for brain and overall health. Without proper sleep, the chance of disease and stress increases ...Full Article
The Effects Of Obesity You Can’t Always See: 5 Major Organs Damaged By Excess Body Fat
Obesity doesn’t just add layers of fat around your thighs and torso. Some of the greatest consequences of poor diet and lack of exercise occur inside your body, out ...Full Article
Friends Have More DNA in Common than Strangers
People may unsuspectingly choose friends who have some DNA sequences in common with them, a new analysis finds. Researchers compared gene variations between nearly 2,000 people who were not biologically ...Full Article