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July 21, 2009

Mobile phone microscopy

Category: Technology

Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley have developed a microscope attachment which enables a standard mobile phone with a camera to be used for high-resolution clinical microscopy.

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July 17, 2009

Tiger moths jam bat sonar

Category: Animal Behaviour

A team of biologists has used high-speed infrared cameras and ultrasonic microphones to demonstrate that tiger moths evade capture by emitting ultrasound clicks to jam bats' biosonar

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July 16, 2009

Meet Phineas Gage

Category: History of neuroscience

Two photographers from Massachusetts have discovered in their collection what is believed to be the only known image of the legendary Phineas Gage

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July 13, 2009

Swearing increases pain tolerance

Category: Neuroscience

A study by psychologists from Keele University shows that swearing after we hurt ourselves reduces the amount of pain we feel

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July 10, 2009

Selective aphasia in a brain damaged bilingual patient

Category: Neuroscience

A case study of a brain-damaged bilingual patient sheds light on how two languages are represented in the brain.

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July 3, 2009

Evolutionary origins of the nervous system

Category: Evolutionary Biology

A number of recent studies provide clues to the evolutionary origins of the nervous system

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