What Ever Happened to Mad Cow?
One of the most existentially frightening illnesses ever to be discovered was mad cow disease, a fatal prion-spread illness that appeared in animals in the 1980s and killed over 200…
Cursive Handwriting Could Make Your Idiot Kid Smarter, Study Suggests
There’s a glimmer of hope if you’re looking for last-ditch strategies to save your child from the halls of stupidity. A study published this week in the journal Frontiers of…
Your Tastebuds Help Tell You When to Stop Eating, New Research Suggests
Our mouths might help keep our hunger in check. A recent study found evidence in mice that our brains rely on two separate pathways to regulate our sense of fullness…
First Complete Map of a Fly Brain Has Uncanny Similarities to AI Neural Networks
The reconstruction of the larval fly’s brain includes 3,016 neurons and 548,000 connections, or synapses, between neurons. Scientists say it’s the most complex, complete map ever published of an animal’s…
Donut-brained cuttlefish passed an intelligence test designed for kids
Cuttlefish are far more intelligent than we give them credit for. In fact, a recent study conducted by Dr. Alex Schnell from the University of Cambridge, found that cuttlefish passed…
Silicon Valley loves nootropics. But the ‘brain boosters’ aren’t always what they claim.
It turns out that neurohacking your brain is not quite the same as hacking a machine. Search for ways to improve focus or memory on Google, and you might run…