But who and what is Santa? Does reality have anything to do with it? When is it time for parents to ‘fess up about Santa? And, why does this story persist? In a 1000 years time will the story of Father Christmas be the foundations of a new religion or will it be like a [...]

Few of us are true morning people who can effortlessly bound out of bed at five or six in the morning; likewise die-hard night owls who while away their lives in teh wee small hours and sleep entirely during daylight are equally as rare.
Researchers estimate that extremes on the bell curve comprise about 10 to [...]

Brain-imaging studies have revealed that how US citizens will vote next week could be based more on how the brain responds to negative aspects of a politician’s appearance rather than to positive ones.

The functional magnetic resonance imaging study is published online in the journal Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.

The researchers at Caltech, Scripps College, Princeton [...]

The task involves remembering a sequence of spoken letters and a sequence of positions of a square at the same time.
The original study had participants practice the task for 20 minutes per day for 19 days. The participants’ fluid intelligence scores, as measured by standardized tests, increased up to 40% during this time. No upper [...]