Yasemin Saplakoglu
Why many mathematicians say that ‘the number zero is mankind’s greatest achievement’
From zero sprang the laws of the universe, number theory, and modern mathematics. “Zero is, by many mathematicians, definitely considered ...
Can you recall an emotionally charged moment? This single molecule drives whether that memory is good or bad
As Salk Institute postdoctoral researcher Hao Li and his team reported recently in Nature, the difference between memories that conjure ...
How does memory form? See what a fearful recollection looks like in the brain of a zebrafish
In a new study published in January in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a team at the ...
HPV vaccine cuts cervical cancer rate by 87% in UK study
The human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine reduced cervical cancer cases by 87% among women in the U.K. who received the vaccine ...
Lab-grown mini brains grow their own eyes
A group of scientists has grown mini brains that have something their real counterparts do not: a set of eye-like ...
How the brain bends our sense of time
Time in the brain doesn't follow the steady ticking of the world's most precise clocks. Instead, it seems to fly by ...
To this man, numbers look like scrambled “spaghetti” but his brain works fine. What’s going on?
RFS is the first patient with an inability to see numbers. "He sees something … a scramble of lines and ...
Distinctive ‘Habsburg jaw’ of medieval kings and queens was created by centuries of inbreeding, study suggests
Many of the kings and queens of the Spanish Habsburg dynasty, which ruled across Europe from the 16th to the ...
Aggressive cancer adapts quickly thanks to odd ‘doughnut-shaped’ DNA
Cancer cells may owe some of their destructive nature to unique, "doughnut-shaped" DNA, according to a new study. The study, published ...
Longer lives for humans? Here’s what it will take
How healthy will the world be in 2040? If things continue as they are now, the answer is better off ...