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Better-looking sportsmen more likely to winEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
New research, along with a Twitter-facilitated study conducted by New Scientist, reveals an important trait of the best jocks: a handsome face (Source: New Scientist - The Human Brain)
Source: New Scientist - The Human Brain - November 19, 2009 Category: Neurology Source Type: journals

Gene change in cannibals reveals evolution in actionEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Devastating brain disease caused by human cannibalism promoted protective gene mutation to emerge just 200 years ago (Source: New Scientist - The Human Brain)
Source: New Scientist - The Human Brain - November 19, 2009 Category: Neurology Source Type: journals

Toddlers insensitive to fear go on to commit crimesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Adult criminals tend to be fearless, but whether this quality emerges before or after their crimes wasn't clear until now (Source: New Scientist - The Human Brain)
Source: New Scientist - The Human Brain - November 17, 2009 Category: Neurology Source Type: journals

NASA to restart primate irradiation testingEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The effect of space radiation on astronauts is still a big question mark for deep space exploration – primate research is meant to cut it down to size (Source: New Scientist - The Human Brain)
Source: New Scientist - The Human Brain - November 16, 2009 Category: Neurology Source Type: journals

Signature of consciousness captured in brain scansEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Consistent patterns linked to awareness of particular images could be used to detect consciousness in brain-damaged people (Source: New Scientist - The Human Brain)
Source: New Scientist - The Human Brain - November 12, 2009 Category: Neurology Source Type: journals

The Peeriodic Table of IllusionsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Illusions can tell us much about how our brains work, but first we need to know how each one works, says Richard L. Gregory (Source: New Scientist - The Human Brain)
Source: New Scientist - The Human Brain - November 12, 2009 Category: Neurology Source Type: journals

Suite of chatterbox genes discoveredEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A set of 116 genes influenced by Foxp2 could have coevolved to give humans language (Source: New Scientist - The Human Brain)
Source: New Scientist - The Human Brain - November 11, 2009 Category: Neurology Source Type: journals

Why smells from childhood mean so muchEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The first scent you associate with an object may be given privileged status in the brain (Source: New Scientist - The Human Brain)
Source: New Scientist - The Human Brain - November 11, 2009 Category: Neurology Source Type: journals

Head-mounted microscope sees brain beneath the skullEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A microscope fitted to rats' heads watched the animals' brains in action as they roved freely (Source: New Scientist - The Human Brain)
Source: New Scientist - The Human Brain - November 9, 2009 Category: Neurology Source Type: journals

How your brain sees virtual youEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The way the brain regards the virtual "you" may help explain why some people spend large chunks of their life online playing immersive games (Source: New Scientist - The Human Brain)
Source: New Scientist - The Human Brain - November 6, 2009 Category: Neurology Source Type: journals

Skin helps heartbeat creep into consciousnessEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Tests on a brain-damaged man suggests that nerves in the skin may play a role in our self-awareness (Source: New Scientist - The Human Brain)
Source: New Scientist - The Human Brain - November 5, 2009 Category: Neurology Source Type: journals

Jung's Red Book: The art of psychologyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Carl Jung's "lost" book – just published for the first time – is a cornerstone of our intellectual history, says its editor Sonu Shamdasani (Source: New Scientist - The Human Brain)
Source: New Scientist - The Human Brain - November 3, 2009 Category: Neurology Source Type: journals

Clever fools: Why a high IQ doesn't mean you're smartEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
IQ measures the brightness of our mental searchlight. But where we point it also matters (Source: New Scientist - The Human Brain)
Source: New Scientist - The Human Brain - November 2, 2009 Category: Neurology Source Type: journals

Dreams of Doom help gamers learnEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The dreams of video game players suggest that nocturnal visions have a practical role: helping us to learn new skills (Source: New Scientist - The Human Brain)
Source: New Scientist - The Human Brain - October 30, 2009 Category: Neurology Source Type: journals

Multiplying universes: How many is the multiverse?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Imagine 10 to the power of 10 to the power of 10 million universes – oh, sorry, quantum physics says you can't (Source: New Scientist - The Human Brain)
Source: New Scientist - The Human Brain - October 28, 2009 Category: Neurology Source Type: journals

Brain scanners can tell what you're thinking aboutEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A real-time scan can reveal what you are looking at and recalling – is this mind reading? (Source: New Scientist - The Human Brain)
Source: New Scientist - The Human Brain - October 28, 2009 Category: Neurology Source Type: journals

Lost limb leads to flexible new body imageEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Amputees who feel the presence of a phantom limb can be trained to move it in impossible ways, which could allow new ways to ease phantom pain (Source: New Scientist - The Human Brain)
Source: New Scientist - The Human Brain - October 27, 2009 Category: Neurology Source Type: journals

High testosterone linked to miserly behaviourEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A cream that boosted levels of the sex hormone in men made them less generous when playing an economic game, a study found (Source: New Scientist - The Human Brain)
Source: New Scientist - The Human Brain - October 26, 2009 Category: Neurology Source Type: journals

Memory and forgetting in the digital ageEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Do you want to remember everything? Total Recall by Gordon Bell and Jim Gemmell says you do; Delete by Victor Mayer-Schonberger says you don't (Source: New Scientist - The Human Brain)
Source: New Scientist - The Human Brain - October 24, 2009 Category: Neurology Source Type: journals

What's the point of a fake 500-day Mars mission?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Volunteers are being asked to play astronauts on a simulated Mars mission – but it's not the only way to learn how long-haul spacefarers will cope (Source: New Scientist - The Human Brain)
Source: New Scientist - The Human Brain - October 22, 2009 Category: Neurology Source Type: journals

Mona Lisa's smile a mystery no moreEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Leonardo da Vinci's enigmatic portrait works by sending mixed signals to the brain (Source: New Scientist - The Human Brain)
Source: New Scientist - The Human Brain - October 22, 2009 Category: Neurology Source Type: journals

Timewarp: How your brain creates the fourth dimensionEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Time is an illusion: your brain stitches it together until it seems continuous. But what happens when it goes wrong? (Source: New Scientist - The Human Brain)
Source: New Scientist - The Human Brain - October 21, 2009 Category: Neurology Source Type: journals

Bouncing back: How we deal with bereavementEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In The Other Side of Sadness, clinical psychologist George Bonanno asks the best way of coping with grief and why some feel it more than others (Source: New Scientist - The Human Brain)
Source: New Scientist - The Human Brain - October 17, 2009 Category: Neurology Source Type: journals

Time isn't what it used to beEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
From physics to biology to neuroscience, Time by Eva Hoffman poetically explores the many faces of the mysterious dimension (Source: New Scientist - The Human Brain)
Source: New Scientist - The Human Brain - October 16, 2009 Category: Neurology Source Type: journals

Laser creates 'false memories' in fly brainsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Flies with brains genetically engineered to respond to light learned to avoid certain smells as if they had experienced pain (Source: New Scientist - The Human Brain)
Source: New Scientist - The Human Brain - October 15, 2009 Category: Neurology Source Type: journals

Approaching footsteps boost seeing in the darkEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The sound of something getting closer increases the sensitivity of the visual part of your brain – before you're even conscious of hearing it (Source: New Scientist - The Human Brain)
Source: New Scientist - The Human Brain - October 15, 2009 Category: Neurology Source Type: journals

It's official: Your bullying boss really is an idiotEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Psychologists show that people turn nasty when influence and incompetence collide (Source: New Scientist - The Human Brain)
Source: New Scientist - The Human Brain - October 15, 2009 Category: Neurology Source Type: journals

'Matrix for mice' probes how mental maps are madeEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Virtual reality created specially for mice could help explain how the brain creates internal maps (Source: New Scientist - The Human Brain)
Source: New Scientist - The Human Brain - October 14, 2009 Category: Neurology Source Type: journals

Psychopaths are distracted, not cold-bloodedEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
An attention deficit, rather than an inability to feel emotion, may make psychopathic people seem fearless (Source: New Scientist - The Human Brain)
Source: New Scientist - The Human Brain - October 14, 2009 Category: Neurology Source Type: journals

Out of your head: Leaving the body behindEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
It's surprisingly easy to lose touch with your physical being – such out-of-body experiences reveal how our brain generates a sense of self (Source: New Scientist - The Human Brain)
Source: New Scientist - The Human Brain - October 13, 2009 Category: Neurology Source Type: journals

Learning to juggle grows brain networks for goodEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
People who did regular juggling training developed fresh connections in the brain's "white matter" – and they stayed even when the juggling stopped (Source: New Scientist - The Human Brain)
Source: New Scientist - The Human Brain - October 11, 2009 Category: Neurology Source Type: journals

Innovation: The psychology of Google WaveEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
It's "what email would look like if it were invented today", say its inventors – but how will people use it? (Source: New Scientist - The Human Brain)
Source: New Scientist - The Human Brain - October 9, 2009 Category: Neurology Source Type: journals

Look into my eyes: The power of hypnosisEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Hypnotism is becoming invaluable to psychologists as a tool to reveal some of the bizarre ways in which our brains misbehave (Source: New Scientist - The Human Brain)
Source: New Scientist - The Human Brain - October 9, 2009 Category: Neurology Source Type: journals

CSI: Doodle – lie detection through artEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
How you draw a crime scene can give away whether you really saw it or made the whole thing up (Source: New Scientist - The Human Brain)
Source: New Scientist - The Human Brain - October 9, 2009 Category: Neurology Source Type: journals

Wake up at the back!Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Are you asleep? If the answer seems obvious, think again (Source: New Scientist - The Human Brain)
Source: New Scientist - The Human Brain - October 8, 2009 Category: Neurology Source Type: journals

Are you asleep? Exploring the mind's twilight zoneEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
You think you're awake, yet vital parts of your brain might be sleeping. That's bad news if you're trying to concentrate – or flying a plane (Source: New Scientist - The Human Brain)
Source: New Scientist - The Human Brain - October 7, 2009 Category: Neurology Source Type: journals

Think yourself a better pictureEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Just tell people they are watching in high definition and they'll say the picture is sharper even when it's not (Source: New Scientist - The Human Brain)
Source: New Scientist - The Human Brain - October 7, 2009 Category: Neurology Source Type: journals

Brain-wave boost sets us to slow motionEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Running an electric current through the brain boosts beta waves and slows movement, which could suggest new treatments for diseases like Parkinson's (Source: New Scientist - The Human Brain)
Source: New Scientist - The Human Brain - October 2, 2009 Category: Neurology Source Type: journals

Sports jocks are oh-so predictableEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
According to game theory, professional baseball pitchers and American football players do not keep their opponents guessing enough (Source: New Scientist - The Human Brain)
Source: New Scientist - The Human Brain - October 1, 2009 Category: Neurology Source Type: journals

'Poetic' autism film divides campaignersEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A short film that suggests autism breaks apart families and relationships is causing a spat between people with autism and a charity (Source: New Scientist - The Human Brain)
Source: New Scientist - The Human Brain - September 29, 2009 Category: Neurology Source Type: journals

Gamers are more aggressive to strangersEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Levels of testosterone in computer gamers surged when they were competing against strangers, but not friends – as you'd expect in real warfare (Source: New Scientist - The Human Brain)
Source: New Scientist - The Human Brain - September 28, 2009 Category: Neurology Source Type: journals

Concepts are born in the hippocampusEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Brain regions have been identified that allow us to sort the world into separate concepts – a defining feature of human intelligence (Source: New Scientist - The Human Brain)
Source: New Scientist - The Human Brain - September 28, 2009 Category: Neurology Source Type: journals

Smacking hits kids' IQEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Toddlers who were smacked regularly developed lower IQs than kids whose mothers didn't hit them (Source: New Scientist - The Human Brain)
Source: New Scientist - The Human Brain - September 25, 2009 Category: Neurology Source Type: journals

Lack of sleep linked to Alzheimer'sEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Sleep deprivation in mice causes more plaques to form in their brains – an insomnia drug reduced the amount of plaque-forming protein (Source: New Scientist - The Human Brain)
Source: New Scientist - The Human Brain - September 24, 2009 Category: Neurology Source Type: journals

Gene for memory and IQ gives students low gradesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Taiwanese students with a gene mutation linked to better memory and IQ – but also anxiety and mental illness – get worse results in high-pressure exams (Source: New Scientist - The Human Brain)
Source: New Scientist - The Human Brain - September 23, 2009 Category: Neurology Source Type: journals

Free will is not an illusion after allEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A landmark 1980s experiment that purported to show free will doesn't exist is being challenged (Source: New Scientist - The Human Brain)
Source: New Scientist - The Human Brain - September 23, 2009 Category: Neurology Source Type: journals

Minimally conscious patients can learnEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This might mean that learning new associations could help patients with consciousness disorders recover (Source: New Scientist - The Human Brain)
Source: New Scientist - The Human Brain - September 20, 2009 Category: Neurology Source Type: journals

Break promises if you like but treat your workers wellEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Employees care most about the rewards and opportunities they end up getting, regardless of what they were initially promised (Source: New Scientist - The Human Brain)
Source: New Scientist - The Human Brain - September 17, 2009 Category: Neurology Source Type: journals

Brain science to help teachers get into kids' headsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Neuroscience is set to bring fresh insight to teaching – and banish a few myths about the brain (Source: New Scientist - The Human Brain)
Source: New Scientist - The Human Brain - September 16, 2009 Category: Neurology Source Type: journals

Human brains better tooled up than monkeysEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Our brains respond to tools in a way that macaque brains don't, which could explain how human ingenuity suddenly leapt ahead (Source: New Scientist - The Human Brain)
Source: New Scientist - The Human Brain - September 16, 2009 Category: Neurology Source Type: journals