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Can Humans Sense Magnetic Fields?

Adults Neuroscience
Research has found some human brains can pick up on rotations of geomagnetic-strength fields as evidenced by drops in alpha wave power following stimulus.

The Neuroscience Behind Stress and Learning

Teachers Neuroscience
Activities for learning at all ages. Short stories and videos with real questions asked by kids about things everyone wants to know about.

How to Make Learning Effective

Teachers Neuroscience
With the background on the principles and fundamentals of learning, along with the neuroscience behind it, you can get the most out of your students during class time with them.

Could You Live Without A Body?

Adults Neuroscience
Could uploading our consciousness to the internet be the key to living forever?

Why You Don't Want Invisibility

Adults Neuroscience
Invisibility is always part of the most desired superpowers argument, but is there more downside to it than meets the eye?

Why is it so hard to cure ALS?

Adults Neuroscience
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), also called motor neuron disease and Lou Gehrig's Disease affects about two out of every 100,000 people worldwide.

Why Do We Itch?

Adults Neuroscience
It's one of the most annoying sensations our bodies can feel, but does anything feel better than when you scratch an itch? Ok, maybe *some* things. But itching and scratching are up there. How does this weird sensation work? And what is itching for?

What If You Never Forgot Anything?

Adults Neuroscience
How does memory work? And how does... un-memory work? Our brain does a lot of remembering and forgetting every day, so you should probably make room for som info on how it works.

What causes headaches? - Dan Kwartler

Adults Neuroscience
In ancient Greece, the best-known remedy for a long-standing headache was to drill a small hole in the skull to drain supposedly infected blood.

How does your body know you're full? - Hilary Coller

Adults Neuroscience
Hunger claws at your belly. It tugs at your intestines, which begin to writhe, aching to be fed. Being hungry generates a powerful and often unpleasant physical sensation that's almost impossible to ignore. After you've reacted by gorging on your morning pancakes, you start to experience an opposing force: fullness. But how does your body actually know when you're full? Hilary Coller explains.

Do You Really Have Two Brains?

Adults Neuroscience
Are you a left-brained person or a right-brained person? Spoiler: You're neither. Each of us uses both sides of our brain for most of what we do. But still, there are a number of brain functions that do show lateralization, where they are localized to one side or another. Why is this? And how does it influence our definition of consciousness? People with "split brains" can help us figure it out.

The science behind the Impossible Burger

Adults Neuroscience
The Impossible Burger is meatless, but it tastes, smells, and bleeds like the real thing. The secret ingredient? Neuroscience.

How to practice effectively...for just about anything - Annie Bosler and Don Greene

Adults Neuroscience
Mastering any physical skill takes practice. Practice is the repetition of an action with the goal of improvement, and it helps us perform with more ease, speed, and confidence. But what does practice actually do to make us better at things? Annie Bosler and Don Greene explain how practice affects the inner workings of our brains.

What happens when you have a concussion? - Clifford Robbins

Adults Neuroscience
Each year in the United States, players of sports and recreational activities receive between 2.5 and 4 million concussions. How dangerous are all those concussions? The answer is complicated and lies in how the brain responds when something strikes it. Clifford Robbins explains the science behind concussions.

The left brain vs. right brain myth - Elizabeth Waters

Adults Neuroscience
The human brain is visibly split into a left and right side. This structure has inspired one of the most pervasive ideas about the brain: that the left side controls logic and the right side controls creativity. And yet, this is a myth, unsupported by scientific evidence. So how did this idea come about, and what does it get wrong? Elizabeth Waters looks into this long held misconception.

A neuroscientist explains how being bilingual makes your brain more robust

Adults Neuroscience
Marian Sigman, a neuroscientist and author of "The Secret Life of the Mind: How Your Brain Thinks, Feels, and Decides," explains how babies that grow up bilingual will have brain functions that might be superior to those children that only speak one language.

A neuroscientist explains how exercise can make you smarter

Adults Neuroscience
Dr. Wendy A. Suzuki is a Professor of Neural Science and Psychology in the Center for Neural Science at NYU and the the author of "Healthy Brain, Happy Life." Here, she explains the positive effects of exercising to the brain.

Your Brain Changes all the time, but Being a Mom Changes It Forever

Adults Neuroscience
Mother's bodies go through tons of changes before and after giving birth, but so do their brains! What really makes a mom's brain different?

Why Some People Don't Feel Pain

Adults Neuroscience
Pain helps us survive, and yet some people are born without the ability to feel pain, how?

This Is How Your Brain Powers Your Thoughts

Adults Neuroscience
Scientists have figured out how our brains process thoughts and the explanation will blow your mind.

This Giant Neuron Could Explain Where Consciousness Comes From

Adults Neuroscience
After uncovering three giant neurons, scientists could be one step closer to pinpointing where consciousness lives in the brain.