Memories are fluid. They alter over time. Sometimes the details are lost or adjusted, other times they are manufactured in response to an...

How is it that we have become the apex predator on Earth? Simple - evolution favoured our ingenuity. We are not the fastest, strongest or...

We all know how to keep our hearts healthy, but what about our brains? Eat oats for breakfast, get your five a day, vigorous exercise...

It is an attractive proposition. Internet speeds up to twenty times faster than our current best services can offer. Mobile streaming in...

There is a standing joke within my family, that I could not navigate my way out of a paper bag. They smirk and simper, and shake their...

George Orwell popularised the notion of ‘Sheeple’. Conspiracy theorists ran with the term from then on, but just how manipulated are we...

We live in a ‘Buy Now’ culture. One that rewards impulsiveness and instant gratification. The buy now, pay later marketing phenomenon is...

It all began with the Marshmallow Test. Present a child with a single marshmallow, tell them that they could have instant gratification...

I have written before about the neurology of synaesthesia, where a person’s senses blend, allowing them to see colours of music, or taste...

Trust is hard won, but easily lost forever. Why are global tech and consumer companies trying so hard to win our favour and approval? It...

Having recently received the diagnosis of a defective thyroid gland, I am reminded of an article I read regarding the effects of...

I was never interested in History as a child. Dull school room text books and rote learning put me off the subject for years. The only...

A placebo is a powerful thing. Now, it seems that they can be administered in both tablet and psychological form, with similar effects on...

My research takes me to a pretty diverse cross section of websites on the internet. One moment I am trawling through scientific...

In this internet age of YouTube videos reclassifying common sense as wonderful hacks, I was amazed to find an entire branch of scientific...

Just seven days after the release of book two in The Aurora Conspiracy series, I stumbled across an article which documents a real event...

There appears to be a resurgence of medical studies investigating electrical stimulation of the brain. My last blog post centred around a...

It amuses me how often neuroscientists alter their opinions on the functions of brain regions. Take the cerebellum, a lobe attached to...

Why is it when scientific studies buck the current trends and paradigms, they are relegated to the backwaters and entitled,...

While scientists across the globe are competing to master the use of gene manipulation to grow new body parts and repair broken organs,...