Two hooded crows in a lab have wowed their human colleagues by passing a test designed to see whether animals can grasp analogies. The test presents a sample card showing two symbols, such as two triangles or a plus sign paired with a circle, that may be alike or different in shape, color or size,

In the past few days you may well have scribbled out a shopping list on the back of an envelope or stuck a Post-it on your desk. Perhaps you added a comment to your child’s report book or made a few quick notes during a meeting. But when did you last draft a long text by hand? How long ago did you

There’s always new advice coming out about what pregnant women should — or should not — eat. Get enough protein. Get enough folate. Don’t eat too much sugar. But don’t go too low-carb. Don’t gain too much weight during pregnancy. Eat more nuts. Don’t drink. It’s enough to make any mom-to-be’s head

Scientists have raised hopes that brain damage caused by strokes, stab wounds and even bullets could one day be repaired by converting structural cells into functioning neurons. For the first time, they have managed to regenerate damaged areas of the cerebral cortex of living animals by

A massive white matter tract at the back of the brain, overlooked for the past century, might be crucial for skills such as reading. A team of neuroscientists in America say they have rediscovered an important neural pathway that was first described in the late nineteenth century but then