Brain Scientists

Findings of palentologists from the American Museum of Natural History are forcing a revision of popular beliefs on dinosaur behavior. After re-examining fossils, they overturned a 1950s claim that theropod dinosaurs were cannibals that ate juveniles o…

Could gas conservation be another reason to diet? Maybe so, according to recent findings from researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Virginia Commonwealth University. As Americans’ waistlines have expanded over the past few d…

University of Utah biologists invented a hairdryer-like device — the “LouseBuster” — to rid children of head lice infestations. Their “weapon” effectively eradicates infestations with a single 30-minute treatment that requires no chemicals but instea…

Researchers from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, sent a fleet of unmanned aerial drones through the pollution-filled skies over the Indian Ocean and achieved an important milestone in tracking polluta…

Much of the world could face longer heat waves, more intense precipitation, and other weather extremes by the end of the century, say NCAR scientists and colleagues, based on a new study using the world’s most advanced climate models. The good news is….

New technology uses cell phone positioning to identify traffic speed and congestion. Engineers from IntelliOne Technologies have developed a system that converts ordinary cell-phone signaling data to live roadway information for emergency responders an…

No ice at the poles… could it be true? Yes, if you’re talking about the moon. Despite earlier thoughts of plentiful ice at the lunar poles, astronomers from Cornell and the Smithsonian Institution, using high-resolution radar-mapping techniques, foun…

Multi-tasking… we all do it, but is it a good idea? Researchers at UCLA say not if you’re trying to learn something new that you hope to remember. Psychologists report that multi-tasking affects the brain’s learning systems, so we don’t learn as well…

The famed Chicxulub meteor alone could not have caused the mass extinction of dinosaurs and their contemporaries, according to a Princeton University paleontologist and her collaborators. They found evidence that multiple meteor impacts, gigantic volca…

In the next few years, you might be able to plan those outdoor events with certainty of good weather. Scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research are testing an observing strategy that has the potential to completely transform the accur…