What's The Reflex?
	Why does the cat always land on all four legs? Why do we keep on breathing, even if we sleep? This is the result of reflexes – automatic reactions that are not consciously controlled. Reflexes can be varied, from simple like retreating hand in contact with a hot object, to more complicated ones, that help us maintain the balance. We are born with many basic reflexes, which we forget as we learn new activities. The reflex is triggered u ... [read more >>]
	18 October 2007, 13:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

What Stops Our Animalic Behavior?
	Human behavior is driven by its basic instincts for food and sex and at a higher level for power (of any kind, from hierarchy to financial, political, sexual and so on). And based on these instincts, powerful reflexes can form, all of them unconscious. If unsuppressed, they would turn us into animals. But now a team at Cardiff University and University College London (UCL) has discovered an area of the brain that helps us act like huma ... [read more >>]
	25 June 2007, 04:37GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Cockroaches Found as Intelligent as Dogs!
	Cockroaches are really persistent, and so hardy that researchers found they were the only organisms that can survive in an area after atomic experiments. Now, Japanese researchers were amazed with a new finding on these disgusting insects: they have a memory enabling them to form Pavlovian reflexes. They taught cockroaches to salivate in response to neutral stimuli like the Russian scientist Pavlov did a century ago with dogs ... [read more >>]
	14 June 2007, 09:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia