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,...

It seems that the delicate structures of helices and spirals pervade more of our world than we initially thought. In following a...

Perhaps the Big Brother of the future might be better described as a creepy little sister. I may have used this analogy before, which...

One more example of science fiction becoming science fact. We are another step closer to re-growing body parts to order. This time,...

When I first read the news that a rudimentary biological circuit had been created from clusters of kidney cells, I was both excited and...

Synaesthesia appears to be an increasingly popular quirk to apply to characters in fictional stories. This revelation sent me on a quest...

This is one of those rare times when my posts appear to overlap. In my last report, on the 7th March 2018, I wrote about the potential...

“I’m not worried…” says Jennifer Doudna, the woman who has cracked gene editing, “I’m excited.” I cannot help wondering whether Robert...