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Why Eating When You're Depressed Makes You Eat More [Science]
In Austin Powers, Fat Bastard explains that he eats when he's depressed, and he's depressed because he eats. Turns out, these kinds of vicious circles of eating are due to a drug-like hit-and-comedown response in your brain, activated specifically by rich foods.More »
Obese Mothers Give Birth to Less Intelligent Children [Science]
Not all people are born equal. In fact, new research suggests that if a child is born from an obese mother, it is likely to have significantly lower cognitive function compared to a child from a mother of a healthy weight.More »
Texas Surgeons Are Live-Tweeting Brain Surgery Right Now [Medicine]
Dr Dong Kim, the surgeon who treated congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords after she was shot in the head in 2011, is currently removing a brain tumor from one of his patients. That's fairly normal. However, today, another neurosurgeon happens to live-tweeting events as they unfold. No pressure.More &...
Bigger Words Make Emotions More Intense [Science]
Scientists have shown that words printed in larger font sizes elicit a stronger emotional response. A report, published in PLoS ONE, has show that reading all kinds of words—positive, neutral, or negative—printed in larger fonts causes higher electrical potential in the brain than whe...
We Brag Because It Feels as Good as Sex [Science]
It often seems like a lot of people sure love talking about themselves. But now scientists are working out why we love to brag, and it turns out it's not really our fault: talking about yourself provides the exact same sensation as great food, money and sex.More »
Commandos Now Play Digital Brain Games as War Prep [Video]
U.S. special operations forces carry out some the military's toughest, most high-stakes missions. To pull them off, the commandos need speed, agility and swift perception skills akin to those of top-tier professional athletes. That might explain why the military's latest commando training progra...
This Simple Test Can Tell If You're a Facebook Addict [Facebook]
Cold sweats. Shortness of breath. Inability to concentrate. You've got withdrawal symptoms, and you've got them bad. There's only one thing that can help, and that's a long, hard hit of the blue stuff: sweet, nourishing Facebook. That's right, researchers have determined that it's possible to be ...
Even Babies Are a Little Racist [Science]
While there are no shortage of studies that suggest adults are less able to recognise individuals of different races to themselves, the latest is actually interesting: babies as young as nine months old are better able to recognize faces and emotional expressions of people who belong to their rac...
This Man Had a Taser Dart Stuck In His Brain and Didn't Even Realize [Weapons]
Sometimes, academic journals have the best stories. Like last week's issue of Forensic Science International, which describes how a man had a a drunken confrontation with the police and ended up with a taser dart stuck in his brain.More »
Your Work Ethic Depends on Dopamine Levels Across the Brain [Science]
Some of us work hard, others are slackers—and for a long time the reason behind radically different work ethics has been a mystery. But new research reveals that dopamine levels in three different areas of the brain influence our willingness to work.More »
