One per cent of adults and five per cent of children are unable to achieve what most of us take...

Our nervous systems have left-right differences that are important for correct functioning. Handedness is probably the best known asymmetry arising...

Although it has already been known for some time that the brain does not remain rigid in its structure even...

Typically, trash films are low budget films, which do not correspond to the mainstream standards and taste. However, with three...

The cerebral cortex resembles a vast switchboard. Countless lines carrying information about the environment, for example from the sensory organs,...

We have all bumped our heads at some point, and such incidents are usually harmless. This is thanks to fluid-filled...

Learning a new language is a difficult task. It requires skills for memorizing new words, learning how to put those...

With some movies, suspense is quite literally in the air. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry and the...

Grimacing, we flinch when we see someone accidentally hit their thumb with a hammer. But is it really pain we...

Rustling leaves, a creaking branch: To a mouse, these sensory impressions may at first seem harmless -- but not if...

Participants in major political conferences could write a book about it: negotiations constantly fail due to the uncooperative and selfish...

In the brain, the visual cortex processes visual information and passes it from lower to higher areas of the brain....

A synapse consists of a presynaptic terminal of one neuron and a postsynaptic terminal of another. The presynaptic terminal stores...

It is a cornerstone of theoretical linguistics: the principle of arbitrariness, according to which the form of a word doesn’t...

The number of children we have and at what age is not just a conscious decision made as an adult....