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Spearheading the legislative movement is Carnell Smith, a Georgia engineer who found out shortly after he broke up with his girlfriend that she was pregnant and spent the next 11 years believing he was the girl's father. Then, in 2000, after his visitation time had been cut back around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Duped Dads Fight Back | 1/19/2007 | See Source »

History has not been kind to brain science. From the bogus discipline of phrenology--which claimed that the quality of the mind was reflected in the bumps on the skull--to the ultimately racist field of craniometry, which asserted that intellect could be determined merely by measuring the head, much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Building Our Brain Trust | 1/18/2007 | See Source »

This natural knowledge amounts to the emergence of a basic self, and its presence changes the status of the brain's sensorimotor maps from nonconscious mental patterns to that of conscious mental images. Constructed knowledge is a solution to the problem of consciousness. It does not require a homunculus in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Brain: A Story We Tell Ourselves | 1/18/2007 | See Source »

Imaging studies also make clear that it isn't just dangers or tragic events that cement memory formation. Positive emotions, which are also mediated through the amygdala, have the same effect. Again, that's a perfectly reasonable evolutionary development. If eating or having sex makes you happy, you'll remember...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Brain: The Flavor Of Memories | 1/18/2007 | See Source »

Harvard researchers have created a genetic map that could serve as an “early warning system” for detecting drug resistance in a malaria-causing parasite. The results of the study, released Sunday in the advance online edition of the journal Nature Genetics, may help in the...

Author: By Loren Amor, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Gene Map May Help Eradicate Malaria | 12/12/2006 | See Source »

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