Uncommon Science

“Google Effect”: How Search Engines Affect Your Memory

“Google Effect”: How Search Engines Affect Your Memory

Every day search engines like Google give us thousands of solutions and facilitate our lives. Do they also affect our…

12 years ago

Big Bang: What Did It Look Like?

It looks like we are getting closer to uncovering the origins of our universe. Scientists at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland,…

12 years ago

Beauty ‘Lights Up’ the Brain, Study Finds

What do you feel when you see or hear something beautiful? I'm sure that you can describe your subjective experience,…

12 years ago

Positive Thinking Increases the Lifespan, a 40-Year Study Shows

If you believe that you are fine, then you have a reasonable chance of really feeling better for a long,…

12 years ago

Too Much Intelligence May Be Harmful, Study Finds

Perhaps too much intelligence is not the best thing. Well, we all knew it was true to some extent, given…

12 years ago

Board of Imagination: a Futuristic Mind-Controlled Skateboard

We have already seen skateboards that use electric power to move, which seemed like science fiction not so long ago.…

12 years ago

The QWERTY Effect: How Typing Affects Your Brain

If you are using a desktop, before you start reading this text, look carefully at the keyboard of the computer…

12 years ago

Mind-Reading Device Is Said to Convert Thoughts into Words

Neuroscientists have made another important step in "reading" the human mind. A mind-reading device is claimed to convert thoughts into…

12 years ago

Left vs. Right Hemisphere of the Brain: Which Dominates You?

The human brain is a complex and interconnected system, the largest and the most functionally important part of the central…

12 years ago

Mind Over Matter: Meditation Proven to Increase Heart Health

"Don't think, feel!" – Bruce Lee, Enter the Dragon In our mile-a-minute lives, we seldom take breaks to sit and…

12 years ago