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Researchers Say Experiencing Strong Emotions Synchronizes Brain Activity Across Individuals
Researchers at Aalto University and Turku PET Centre in Finland have found that experiencing strong emotions synchronizes brain activity across individuals. (May 24, 2012)

Paralyzed Woman Controls Robot Arm With Her Mind
Researchers at Brown University have developed BrainGate, an advanced brain-machine interface that enables a person to control a robot arm with their mind. (May 17, 2012)

Bahrain Desert Birds Build 100,000 Nests in Bahrain Desert
This video from BBC's Planet Earth shows how 100,000 Socotra Cormorants come to nest in the Bahrain Desert despite the scorching heat. (May 15, 2012)

Researchers Say Chronic Cocaine Uses Changes Brain's Neuron Structure
Researchers at the University at Buffalo and Mount Sinai School of Medicine say they have found through experiments with mice that chronic cocaine use reduces the expression of a protein known to regulate brain plasticity. (May 13, 2012)

Brain May Avoid Thought Traffic Jams by Communicating at Different Frequencies
Researchers have found that brain networks may avoid traffic jams by communicating on different frequencies. (May 7, 2012)

London Ambulances to Trial Rhinochill Machine
London ambulances are running a trial of the Rhinochill machine, a portable brain cooling device. (May 5, 2012)

Study Finds Bigger Gorillas are Better at Attracting Mates and Raising Young
Conservationists with the Wildlife Conservation Society and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology have found that larger male gorillas living in Congo rainforests appear to be more successful than smaller ones at attracting mates and even raising young. (May 4, 2012)

Cornell Students Play Pong Using Brain Waves
Two Cornell University electrical engineering students, Chuck Moyes and Mengxiang Jiang, developed a way to play Pong using brain waves on a $75 budget. (May 4, 2012)

Dental X-Rays Linked to Common Brain Tumor Say Researchers
Meningioma, the most common primary brain tumor in the United States, accounts for about 33% of all primary brain tumors. (April 26, 2012)

Scientists Explain Brain Freeze Headaches
Scientists at Harvard Medical School and National University of Ireland in Galway have conducted research to determine what causes brain freeze. (April 26, 2012)

New High Resolution Scans Reveal 3D Grid Structure of Monkey and Human Brains
Scientists have released new scans of a monkey brain from a Connectom diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner that reveal a pervasive 3D grid structure with no diagonals. (March 31, 2012)

Slices of Einsten's Brain on Display at Brains Exhibit in London
The Wellcome Collection in London is running a gallery about the human brain called Brains: The Mind as Matter. (March 29, 2012)

Elusive Long-Fingered Frog Rediscovered in Burundi Rainforest After 62 Years
Herpetologists from the California Academy of Sciences and University of Texas at El Paso discovered a single specimen of the Bururi long-fingered frog (Cardioglossa cyaneospila) during a research expedition to Burundi in December 2011. (March 27, 2012)

Paul Allen Commits $300 Million to Institute Pursuing Knowledge About How Brain Works
Microsoft co-founder Paul G. (March 23, 2012)

Scientists Create Mind-Reading Program That Translates Recorded Brain Activity Into Words
The Guardian reports that researchers recorded the brain activity of volunteers while they were listening to audio of spoken words. (February 1, 2012)

Brains of Tiny Spiders Extend Into Their Legs
Smithsonian researchers have discovered that the brains of tiny spiders are so big that they overflow into their legs. (December 15, 2011)

New Study Finds No Link Between Cell Phones and Cancer
A study released earlier this year found a link between cell phones and brain cancer. (October 22, 2011)

Video: Monkeys Meditate for Marshmallows
New Scientist reports that monkeys were trained to put themselves into a Zen-like trance for a marshmallow reward. (October 21, 2011)

Scientists Reconstruct Rough Images of Movie Clips People are Watching From Brain Scans
Scientists from the University of California, Berkeley, have used brain scans to reconstruct rough computer reconstructions of videos that people are watching. (September 25, 2011)

Neuroscientists Explain Motion Aftereffect Optical Illusion
Stare at the X in the center of the image in the video above. (June 28, 2011)

Researchers Find Multiple Cortical Areas Work Together in the Brain to Identify Faces
Carnegie Mellon University's Marlene Behrmann, David Plaut and Adrian Nestor have discovered that an entire network of cortical areas work together to identify faces. (May 31, 2011)

Study Finds Brain Neurons Turn Off in Sleep-Deprived Rats
A new study of rats found that the more rats are sleep-deprived, the more some of their neurons take catnaps - with consequent declines in task performance. (April 27, 2011)

Chicago's Adler Planetarium Launching Deep Space Adventure in July
The Adler Planetarium in Chicago will reveal a new, immersive space experience on July, 8. (April 25, 2011)

Study: Brains of Older Adults Less Adept at Switching Rapidly Between Tasks
Human brains are not built for multitasking. (April 17, 2011)

Study: Brain Instantly Rotates Reflected Words Seen in Mirror, Then Stops
A team of scientists from the Basque Centre on Cognition, Brain and Language (BCBL) says their study shows, for the first time, that the human brain can mentally rotate words seen in a mirror around and understand them automatically and unconsciously, at least for a few instants. (March 31, 2011)