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Essential Vitamins That Help With Brain Activity
The body is a highly complicated biological machine, and the brain is no exception. In fact, our brain is so subtle and sophisticated, even today’s science has a hard time keeping up with it. One thing...
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New evidence that humans developed big brains to cope with society
For the past several decades, scientists have been fascinated by the “social brain theory” — the idea that certain animals evolved big, powerful brains to cope with the complexities of social life. A...
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Meditation: Effects on Emotion Shown to Persist
Meditation affects a person’s brain function long after the act of meditation is over, according to new research. “This is the first time meditation training has been shown to affect emotional...
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Find a Different Route to Work and Exercise Your Brain
When you need to trick your brain into getting a bit more creative, artificial limits can help. One method anyone can try is forcing yourself to find a new route to work. As productivity blog Lifehack...
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Why Your Memory Sucks (and What You Can Do About It)
Human memory is quirky, complicated, and unreliable. Even when we think we’re remembering everything accurately, chances are things have gotten twisted along the way. Let’s take a look at why your...
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Deep brain stimulation: The bleeding edge of neurohacking and transhumanism
Deep brain stimulation (DBS) has proven to be a remarkable success for the treatment of many movement disorders. The dramatic video below shows what happens to Andrew “Cyber-AJ” Johnson just seconds...
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How Your Brain Tricks You Into Thinking You Lost a Sock
We’ve all lost a sock or two in the laundry, but as author Dan Ariely points out in The Wall Street Journal, missing socks aren’t always missing. Sometimes it’s just a trick of the brain. When we...
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How Clutter Affects Your Brain (and What You Can Do About It)
A few years ago, I worked at a web design agency as a product manager. The part of the job I loved the most was working on product with our design team and clients. Unfortunately, this was only about...
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How the Brain Creates the ‘Buzz’ That Helps Ideas Spread
How do ideas spread? What messages will go viral on social media, and can this be predicted? UCLA psychologists have taken a significant step toward answering these questions, identifying for the first...
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How to Trick Your Brain Into Thinking Your Day is Longer
How many times have you wished for more hours in a day? Though adding time isn’t possible, it is possible to trick your brain into feeling like the day is longer. The team at social sharing app Buffer...
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If your brain were a computer, how much storage space would it have?
The comparison between the human brain and a computer is not a perfect one, but it does lend itself to some interesting lines of inquiry. For instance: what is the storage capacity of your brain? The...
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The Threat And Promise Of Humans With Technologically-Boosted Superintelligence
Via Sentient Developments, futurist and Singularity Summit co-organizer Michael Anissimov on radically amplified human intelligence (IA) as potentially even more powerful, and dangerous, than...
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Eating Yogurt Does Weird Things To Your Brain
Does what you eat affect your body more, or your mind? Can you just chow down on Big Macs as far as the brain goes, and be pretty much set? Or is there a deeper connection between thinking and food? A...
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Remote-Controlled Helicopter is Steered by User’s Brain [Video]
Mind-control has slowly but surely made its way from the realm of sci-fi to the real world. Now researchers have taken it a step further, building a flying machine that is controlled by the operator’s...
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Scientists Map Process by Which Brain Cells Form Long-Term Memories
Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes have deciphered how a protein called Arc regulates the activity of neurons – providing much-needed clues into the brain’s ability to form long-lasting memories....
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Your Brain Knows the Difference Between Phony Smiles and Real Ones
Smiling comes in two distinct forms: genuine and polite. The genuine kind are those that result from a friend showing you a hilarious new grumpy cat meme. These smiles are spontaneous and indicative of...
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How Your Brain Perceives Time (and How to Use It to Your Advantage)
We might not be able to create more time when we need it most—like when a deadline is approaching—but we can use the understanding of how we perceive time to our advantage. For example, author Joshua...
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Your Skull and Your iTunes Mix: How skull resonance influences musical...
Why is it that some songs get your toes tapping and others leave you cold? Part of the answer may lie in the unique shape of your skull. In addition to the obvious social and cultural influences on...
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Stretchy Gold Electronics Could Someday Live Inside Your Brain
BY NADIA DRAKE @ Wired.com What looks like a shiny piece of gold foil is actually a new stretchy conductive material that could one day be fashioned into electrode implants for the brain or pacemakers...
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How a Memory Game Can Multiply Your Brain’s Computing Power
By: Ben Thomas @ Discover Magazine When’s the last time you forgot your cell phone? What about your anniversary? We’ve all wished for a better memory at some point. And in those moments, what we’re...
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