25An effective solution to get rid of earworms, those annoying tunes that keep on re-playing in never ending loops in our heads, has been found by a team of scientists at the University of Reading, UK...   <<Read Article>>

A study from the Texas A&M Health Science Center School of Public Health finds students with standing desks are more attentive than their seated counterparts..   <<Read Article>>

How long is the way from the city hall to the train station? When we estimate distances, something curious happens: short distances seem longer, and long distances shorter than they really are... <<Read Article>>

The power of invisibility has long fascinated man and inspired the works of many great authors and philosophers. In a study from Sweden's Karolinska Institutet, a team of neuroscientists now reports a perceptual illusion of having an invisible body, and show that the feeling of invisibility changes our physical stress response in challenging social situations...   <<Read Article>>

New research suggests that the act of remembering causes forgetting of similar but irrelevant memories. Homer Simpson wasn’t a neuroscientist, but he evidently had some insight into how the brain works... <<Read Article>>