Picture waking up each morning and remembering not just what you did yesterday, but what you ate for breakfast on this exact date five years ago. Imagine recalling the weather, your conversations, even the clothes you wore on a random Tuesday from decades past. For most of us, this sounds like science fiction, yet for ...
A child tumbles off a bicycle, stands up, and casually brushes gravel from a bloodied knee. No tears, no flinch, just quiet curiosity. For a tiny group of people, this isn’t bravery – it’s biology. The absence of pain sounds like a superpower until you realize pain is a built‑in alarm, the body’s smoke detector. ...
Picture this: You’re having your morning coffee in Los Angeles when your phone buzzes with an alert that a magnitude 5.2 earthquake will hit in exactly 17 minutes. Sounds like science fiction? Well, this scenario might be closer to reality than you think. Scientists and tech companies around the world are developing artificial intelligence systems ...
Ever wondered why you get butterflies in your stomach when nervous, or why stress seems to mess with your digestion? These aren’t just old sayings – they reflect a profound scientific reality that researchers are only now beginning to understand. Your gut and brain are engaged in constant conversation, creating what scientists call the gut-brain ...
The story of stress is no longer just about tight shoulders and racing thoughts; it’s a molecular drama that unfolds inside our cells. Scientists are now tracing the fingerprints of stress across DNA switches, power-hungry mitochondria, and vigilant immune sentries, and the plot twists are sobering. What looked like fleeting anxiety can etch lasting marks ...
We tend to think of the brain as a tidy command center, but it behaves more like a restless newsroom – predicting, editing, and sometimes rewriting reality on deadline. Scientists keep uncovering findings that flip our intuitions: energy budgets that make no sense, memories that change when we recall them, senses stitched together by guesswork. ...
Picture this: a sleeping rat suddenly starts twitching its legs, its brain firing in precisely the same patterns it showed while navigating a maze earlier that day. Meanwhile, an octopus lies motionless on the ocean floor, its skin flickering through vivid patterns of camouflage – the same sequences it uses to hunt prey when awake. ...
Some memories feel like splinters you can’t pull out, tiny shards that snag on everyday life. For people living with trauma, that pain isn’t poetic – it’s practical, exhausting, and relentless. Scientists have long wondered whether we could lighten the sting or even switch off the worst memories altogether without losing ourselves in the process. ...
Sirens jolt us, voices guide us, but a melody can stop time. Neuroscientists have spent decades puzzling over why music, more than speech or noise, takes hold of memory, mood, and movement so completely. The answer is not a single switch in the brain but a braided system – prediction, reward, emotion, and motor circuits ...
Some people wake up and can tell you exactly what they ate, watched, and worried about on a random Tuesday fifteen years ago. For researchers, this rare ability – often called highly superior autobiographical memory – poses a riveting puzzle: how can recall be so rich for personal days yet mostly ordinary for everything else? ...
Suhail Ahmed
Suhail Ahmed
