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A uniquely human brain area?
It's called the ventrolateral frontal cortex. It's a part of the brain involved in human processes, such as strategic planning and multi-tasking.
February 6, 2014
Hearing improves after a week of blindness
A study suggests that the loss of one sense - vision - can improve another sense - in this case, hearing - by altering the brain circuit.
February 6, 2014
How your memory rewrites your past
Your memory isn't like a video camera. Instead, your memory plucks fragments of the present and inserts them into the past to create a story to fit your current world.
February 5, 2014
Full video of Felix Baumgartner’s supersonic leap from 24 miles up
Baumgartner's jump came 65 years to the day after Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier in a plane. But Baumgartner went supersonic using just his body.
February 4, 2014
Largest human migration takes place around now
Hundreds of millions return to their home villages around the Chinese New Year. In a week to 10 days, 3.6 billion passenger miles are clocked on trains, buses, and cars.
February 1, 2014
View from space: Site of Superbowl XLVIII
A satellite view of the Meadowlands in in East Rutherford, New Jersey. It's the Superbowl's first northern, cold-weather venue.
February 1, 2014
Video: Stargazing in the Canadian Rockies
Jack Fusco captured more than 2,000 photos during the 2013 Jasper Dark Sky Festival in Canada, in order to create this timelapse video.
January 30, 2014
Newly-discovered virus has voracious appetite for anthrax
The newly-discovered anthrax-devouring Tsamsa virus, found in a zebra carcass in Namibia, could lead to new ways to combat deadly anthrax bacteria.
January 30, 2014
Space travel weakens flies’ immune systems
Fruit flies sent as eggs on a 12-day mission aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery had a key part of their immune system weakened, as they grew in space.
January 30, 2014
Will the Black Death reemerge?
Scientists have analyzed the genomes of two of the world's most devastating plagues - each killed about half the people in Europe. The findings suggest a new strain of plague could emerge in humans again.
January 29, 2014
