Three weeks of hard work. Is that all it takes to kick your smoking habit, taste for junk food or serial inability to stop hitting the snooze button? Sounds almost too good to be true, doesn't it?
The human brain can do some amazing things -- and humans can do amazing things because of it. Here are 10 of the most amazing and unusual feats ever performed by a person's brain. See more »
Having a Ph.D., four stars on your general's uniform or a seat in the Oval Office won't necessarily stop you from doing things that make others want to whack you on the head with a "how could you?" Here are 10 who should've thought twice. See more »
Don't think of emotions as just "feelings." They're also the product of how your brain processes your feelings and how you respond to them. See more »
We'd like to think we're pretty clever, but when you correct for body mass, dolphin brains aren't far off from our own. What cognitive skills do dolphins possess, and could they really be our intellectual equals? See more »
Scientific studies are showing that lefties are quicker and more adroit in some activities than their right-handed counterparts. How much validity does this assertion hold? See more »
The trials of being a lefty are numerous. You jostle for elbow room at the table, use scissors that feel funny in the hand and are teased for writing oddly. But do beleaguered lefties get the last laugh in sports? See more »
Medical examiners are attributing an increasing number of deaths while in police custody to a syndrome called excited delirium. The problem is, there's no proof this syndrome exists. See more »
Parents just don't understand. Scientists didn't understand either, until they got a good look inside the teenage brain -- and what they saw turned what we thought we knew on its head. See more »
It doesn't exactly seem like something the human body would do -- let a large portion of itself go to complete waste. Is it true that most of your brain is on permanent hiatus? See more »
You may vaguely remember scratching your chicken pox at the age of 3, but do you remember the moment your body burst into the world? Most likely not. See more »
