| April 30, 2012 |
Dream:ON App
- Can a smartphone app influence your dreams?
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| April 20, 2012 |
Podcast for 20 April 2012
- SOUND SCIENCE - Can sounds influence dreams? Emotional similarities between music and speech. Does a deeper voice lead people to vote for a political candidate? Baboons that recognize words. And baby goats with accents.
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| March 27, 2012 |
Naked Mole Rat Brains
- Researchers have figured out why naked mole rats are resistant to stroke.
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| March 23, 2012 |
Podcast for 23 March 2012
- EVOLUTION & EXTINCTION - What really happened to Australia's missing megafauna, how carnivores lost their sweet tooth, why lovelorn fruit flies resort to alcohol, strategic miscarriages in monkeys, and a new frog species is discovered in plain sight.
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| March 2, 2012 |
Podcast for 2 March 2012
- ALL ABOUT LANGUAGE - Neuroscientists are beginning to reconstruct what we've heard by listening to brainwaves, how scientists measure language delays around the world, using technology to keep endangered languages vibrant, and a musical instrument that allows you to sing...with your hands, Also: decoding the secret language of worms.
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| February 27, 2012 |
Brain Voices
- Scientists are beginning to reconstruct the words people hear based on electrical activity in their brains.
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| February 20, 2012 |
Video Games vs. Cataracts
- Playing certain types of video games can improve the vision of people who were born with cataracts.
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| February 13, 2012 |
Brain Window
- Researchers have captured images of single brain cells in a live animal.
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| February 9, 2012 |
Death by Clock Shift
- A fruit fly study clearly links biological clock disruption to neurodegeneration and early death.
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| January 3, 2012 |
Spider Brains
- Some spiders' brains are so big they spill over into their legs.
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| December 29, 2011 |
Video Game Brains
- Violent video games can affect brain activity well after the games are over.
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| December 28, 2011 |
Collecting & Hoarding
- A listener asks why some people become collectors and hoarders.
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| December 27, 2011 |
Eye-Witness Accuracy
- Tracking witnesses’ eye movements may help reveal what they’ve really seen.
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| December 26, 2011 |
Old Brains
- Preserved brains from the early 20th century may shed light on mental illness.
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| December 22, 2011 |
Podcast for 23 December 2011
- CHANGING BRAINS - Why London taxi drivers have bigger brains, how eye movements reveal what we've really seen, and why emulating the eye movements of experts produces better surgeons. And, what long-dead brains can tell us about mental illness. Also: how violent video games could be changing young men's brains.
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| December 19, 2011 |
Taxi Driver Brains
- The brains of would-be London taxi drivers get bigger during their multi-year training for the job.
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| December 15, 2011 |
Depression Prevention Training
- Researchers hope to stave off depression by training kids to gravitate toward positive images.
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| December 13, 2011 |
Wasp Face Processing
- Paper wasps, which can recognize each other, seem to process faces in ways similar to humans.
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| December 12, 2011 |
Placebos & Pain
- Can the placebo effect be harnessed to help people with chronic pain?
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| December 6, 2011 |
Dreams & Emotions
- REM sleep, in which dreams occur, also may help take the edge off painful memories.
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| December 2, 2011 |
Podcast for 2 December 2011
- THE BRAIN, MOOD & BEHAVIOR - Could dreaming help heal emotional wounds? The relationship between the placebo effect and chronic pain. New research into the genetics of empathy. Also: a computer program to help prevent depression in girls, and exploring sex differences in mood disorders.
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| November 29, 2011 |
Posture & Numbers
- People tend to underestimate numbers when they lean to the left, and overestimate them when they lean to the right.
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| November 23, 2011 |
Sex & Mood Disorders
- Researchers are studying how female and male rats respond differently to stress in order to shed light on why women are disproportionately affected by mood disorders.
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| November 9, 2011 |
Changing IQ
- Contrary to expectations, some teenagers' IQ scores changed significantly over a four-year period.
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| October 28, 2011 |
Podcast for 28 October 2011
- SCIENCE UNDERWATER - Why the seas of the future may belong to jellyfish, why fish tanks can be breeding grounds for aggression, how chatter between ocean bacteria contributes to climate change, and good news about sea turtles. Also, scientists unveil the first underwater cloaking device.
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| October 21, 2011 |
Podcast for 21 October 2011
- PREVENTIVE HEALTH - Vitamin D and ethnicity, a breath test for toxins, drinking and the immune system, measuring pain in the brain, and a new weapon to combat allergic reactions.
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| October 17, 2011 |
Measuring Pain
- Researchers have developed a way to measure pain in the brain.
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| October 13, 2011 |
Kids & Marshmallows Revisited
- An update on a landmark experiment probes the neurological roots of delayed gratification.
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| October 7, 2011 |
Taste Neurons
- The brain has special hotspots that are sensitive to each type of taste.
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| October 5, 2011 |
Mind Movies
- A computer algorithm partially reconstructs movies from patterns of brain activity in people watching them.
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| September 30, 2011 |
Podcast for 30 September 2011
- HORMONES & BEHAVIOR - Testosterone and fatherhood, the genetics of oxytocin and depression, gender and spatial reasoning revisited, where taste is found in the brain, and more.
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| September 26, 2011 |
Oxytocin & Optimism
- A gene variant may influence a person’s outlook on life.
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| September 22, 2011 |
Football & Artificial Intelligence
- Computer scientists used football footage to develop a sophisticated kind of artificial intelligence.
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| September 19, 2011 |
A Deadly Attraction
- Rats are supposed to be afraid of cats, but a tiny pathogen has turned the relationship around for its own benefit.
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| September 15, 2011 |
Sex & Spatial Thinking
- Gender differences in spatial reasoning abilities may be strongly influenced by culture.
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| September 6, 2011 |
Fear Confusion
- An enzyme deficiency makes mice afraid of the wrong things.
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| August 30, 2011 |
Shrinking Brains
- Our brains shrink by up to 15% over our lifetimes, but those of chimpanzees do not.
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| August 26, 2011 |
Podcast for 26 August 2011
- FEAR, LIES & SHRINKING BRAINS - Why our brains shrink, but chimps' don't, why computers are better at spotting lies than we are, and an enzyme for fear. Also, medical electronics that resemble tattoos, and how organic chicken farms could be a boon to public health.
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| August 23, 2011 |
Aging Brains
- Age-related working memory loss may be at least partly reversible.
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| August 3, 2011 |
Soccer Goalies
- Soccer goalies tend to dive toward the right when their team is behind.
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| August 2, 2011 |
Beauty & Brains
- One area of the brain becomes active when we experience beauty.
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| July 29, 2011 |
Tiny Chip Roundup
- The tiniest camera in the world can record the firing of single neurons.
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| July 28, 2011 |
Happy Face Genetics
- Differences in a gene influence how much time we spend looking at happy faces.
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| July 22, 2011 |
Podcast for 22 July 2011
- THE BRAIN & SOCIETY: How the brain experiences beauty, what soccer reveals about the mind, and why lazing around in a hammock could benefit your memory. Also, how your cell phone could help you kick the habit.
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| July 14, 2011 |
Neurons from Skin
- Two teams of scientists have converted skin cells directly into neurons.
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| July 5, 2011 |
Theta Waves
- A type of spontaneous brain activity seems to create favorable conditions for remembering things.
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| June 30, 2011 |
Brain Folding Gene
- A tiny fragment of a single gene makes or breaks the all-important folding of brain tissue.
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| June 28, 2011 |
Deaf Vision
- The retinas of people who have been deaf from birth enhance their peripheral vision.
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| June 22, 2011 |
Neanderthal Hands
- Evidence from ancient teeth suggests that most Neanderthals were right-handed, like us.
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| June 21, 2011 |
Barbie Effect
- To study how we perceive our environment, scientists created the illusion of being either Barbie doll-sized or gigantic.
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