Researchers report that they have added to evidence that a shell-shaped region in the center of the mammalian brain, known as the thalamic reticular nucleus or TRN, is likely responsible for the ...

As much as we humans like to think we can do two things at once, our brains can only process one thing at a time—like the iPhone—but we can get better at switching between the two tasks, according to ...

A single mutation in a person’s genome can be the difference between health and disease, and with base editing, researchers can recreate these mutations in a laboratory to study how genetic changes ...

Physicians in the emergency department are most likely to interrupt one task to perform another while ward doctors are most likely to perform two tasks simultaneously, according to a study published ...

When Research in Motion first introduced its upcoming BlackBerry PlayBook, the tablet was tucked away behind glass, leading some conspiracy theorists to proclaim that the device didn’t actually exist ...