For people of colour in the UK, certain spaces are more comfortable to exist in than others. If you walk into a pub and you are the only person of colour in there, you might feel the need to make ...

Five years ago, a team of University of California San Diego neurobiologists published surprising findings describing how rats’ brain cells adopted new chemical codes when subjected to significant ...

You'd never chat to your boss in the same way you speak to friends in the pub, that's just common sense. But changing how you speak and act around different groups of people happens a lot and can ...

Have you found yourself altering how you speak when you find yourself in a more formal situation? Do you tone down your accent or stay away from words that may only be known in the area you are from?

A tiny region of the brain has been discovered which works as a switch to activate and deactivate consciousness. This area, called the central lateral thalamus, is found deep in the brain and, when ...