The FIFA World Cup starts next Thursday in Brazil. When you, as a football fan, join in the celebrations because your favourite team wins or are extremely crestfallen at a defeat then the so-called mirror neurons are in play.
Jun 10, 2014
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Dennis Deer woke from surgery in utter disbelief that he was breathing normally.
Aug 8, 2023
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People who lose an arm or a leg often experience phantom sensations, as if the missing limb were still there. Seventy per cent of amputees experience pain in the amputated limb despite that it no longer exists.
Mar 10, 2014
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What parts of your brain are involved in gauging a friend's actions and adjusting your own; for example, when you both carry a couch up a flight of stairs? Researchers in Japan have found that part of the right side of the ...
Mar 26, 2019
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Have you ever wondered why when we see someone yawn, we yawn almost immediately? Or how newborns imitate facial gestures like sticking out their tongue? And what about how we learn to use scissors or to color?
Mar 30, 2023
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People rate food as tasting better, and eat more of it, when they eat with company than when they eat alone. This so-called "social facilitation of eating" is a well-established phenomenon; however, exactly what it is about ...
Jun 8, 2017
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Do you get anxious, annoyed or frustrated when you see someone fidgeting? If so, you may suffer from misokinesia–or the "hatred of movements."
Aug 31, 2021
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In new research presented at Euroanaesthesia (the annual meeting of the European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care [ESAIC]), doctors report a highly unusual case of a right-handed patient performing unconscious ...
Nov 30, 2020
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Viewing oneself in the mirror may help positively alter behavior in individuals with obesity, according to an analysis of published studies.
Nov 15, 2021
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It's one thing to question how human genetics work, but it's another to question whether science can create a new genetic system altogether.
Oct 11, 2021
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