Where the brain harbors unconscious fears
...your skin fright from the attack of a horror movie villain or the pulse-pounding encounter with a snarling dog, people react to fearful situations according to their basic unconscious level of anxiety. Now, researchers have pinpointed a region of the brain that filters such threats through a person's basic a...Slime-mold beetles named for Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld
...rnan Cortez, the Aztecs, the fictional "Star Wars" villain Darth Vader ("who shares with A. vaderi a broad, shiny, helmetlike head"), Frances Fawcett (their scientific illustrator) and the Greek words for "ugly" and "having prominent teeth" and the Latin word for "strange." Many of the other names they use...Australian-based research team finds the malaria parasite's 'housebreaking tool'
...e most lethal malaria parasite, is a housebreaking villain of the red blood cell world. Like a burglar searching for a way in to his targeted premises, the parasite explores a variety of potential entry points to invade the red blood cells of its human victims. When a weak point is found, the intrusion proce...Scientists discover scaramanga gene's bond with breast cancer
...discovered that a gene named after the James Bond villain Scaramanga can trigger the development of breasts...ed Scaramanga aptly named after the three-nippled villain from the James Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun is involved in triggering breast development. ...