Brain Surgery Simulator
(YouTube Link) This CBC news story describes a brain surgery simulator that doctors in Halifax, Canada use for practice before cutting open real patients. It simulates not a generic human brain, but...
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Mature Brains Led to Reckless Teenagers
It’s common sense to think that teenage recklessness come from their immaturity – but could the opposite actually be true? A team led by psychiatrist Gregory Berns of Emory University conducted a study...
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MRI of Snake Digesting a Rat
Thanks to modern medical science, we now can see the process of a Burmese Python ingesting a rat in all its gory details: Using a combination of computer tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging...
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Women’s Tears May Reduce Men’s Testosterone
Humans are believed to be the only creatures that produce tears because of emotions like sadness and joy. But researchers at Israel’s Weizmann Institute of Science may have found another function for...
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Engineer Designs His Own Heart Valve
Tal Golesworthy has the typical engineer’s mindset: he saw one solution to a problem and figured that he could do a better job. Specifically, his aortic root was growing so large that it would soon...
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Brain: Getting Dumped and Getting Burned Are The Same Pain
Literature is filled with examples of the pain of heartbreak, but leave it to science to prove that to our brain, the pain of getting dumped and getting burned is actually one and the same: In a new...
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Conservatives and Liberals Have Different Brain Anatomy
Lefty or righty? A new study links a larger anterior cingulate cortex (left) to politically liberal views and a larger right amygdala to conservatism. Image: R. Kanai et al., Current Biology, 21 (26...
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Is There a Scientific Explanation for Justin Bieber?
For more than a century, social scientists have attempted to create a model that will accurately predict what images, songs, or memes will become popular. Now Gregory Berns, a neuroeconomist at Emory...
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Learnin’ Matrix-Style!
Remember the Matrix where all you need to do to learn kung fu is to get it uploaded to your brain? Well, that may soon be coming to real life: New research published today in the journal Science...
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Scientists Had Humans and Monkeys Watch a Clint Eastwood Movie to Study Their...
In order to examine the way that the human brain evolved differently from that of other primates, scientists arranged for selected humans and monkeys to watch the Clint Eastwood movie The Good, the...
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