Our brains quickly assess food, noting taste, health, and familiarity all at once. A study in 'Appetite' reveals this ...

Most of us know someone affected by dementia, and if we don't, we worry we will be affected ourselves. Food and the brain is likely to be one of the hot topics for 2018. Can what you eat make a ...

How many passwords do you have? I don’t know either. My parents never had a single password to remember. They had one telephone number and that phone was attached to the wall. They weren’t bombarded ...

Discovered: Cooking helped humans evolve large brains; beluga vocalizations strikingly similar to human speech; how the dung beetle keeps its cool; measuring consciousness. Measuring consciousness ...

Cooking and brain soup are both examples of procedural creativity that goes beyond the construction of new ideas and hypotheses to provide new methods for accomplishing valuable goals. The importance ...

Synaptic plasticity allows brains to learn, adapt, and rewire. It’s foundational to memory, problem-solving, and complex ...