Psychologists now say that explaining things to your mom actually helps you learn better.

Lack of sleep often comes at times when we need to perform at our best. Now brain researchers studying how sleep deprivation impairs memory have found a potential remedy.

New research provides early evidence of a link between lead and Alzheimer’s Disease.

Weather researchers have found evidence that rain storms tend to take it easy on the weekend. The extra weekday rain might be caused by the pollution we generate by commuting to work.

Researchers now say that having a big brain may protect you from the memory-stealing symptoms of Alzheimer’s Disease, even if you have the brain plaques associated with the disease.

Geneticists are discovering that identical twins don’t have identical DNA. This surprising research could help scientists better understand genetic diseases in the rest of us.

Amid the news of a $23-million dollar court settlement by the makers of Airborne (a supplement that’s earned hundreds of millions of dollars in sales with the claim that it boosts the immune system) biomedical engineers are publishing research on a powder that could turn out to be the real thing. As this ScienCentral News video explains, the new powder could first be used to help fight cancer.

Researchers have found a new way to identify loose cancer cells in patients’ blood. As this ScienCentral News video explains, use of a high tech chip could give doctors a quicker and less invasive way to tell if treatments are working.

Research on brain scans reveals that women with anorexia may experience taste differently than others. This is one of two stories we have on anorexia and the brain, during National Eating Disorders Awareness Week.

New research suggests that the brains of former anorexics have a hard time telling the difference between winning and losing. This is one of two stories we have on anorexia and the brain, during National Eating Disorders Awareness Week.