Researchers from the University of Science and Technology of China found that Chinese people use more of their right brain than do people of Western countries. Describing the reason behind the findings researchers revealed that Chinese use the tone-sensitive right brains to process the tonetic changes of Chinese words in the early 200 milliseconds before the left brain joins to associate the meaning.

In what the doctors call a miracle, a man who went missing in western Japan survived in near-freezing weather without food and water for over three weeks by falling into a state similar to hibernation. The Japanese man, Mitsutaka Uchikoshi, had almost no pulse, when he was rescued.

The sound of James Blunt's song "You're Beautiful" has made a six-year-old girl in Britain wake up from her coma of many months. Claudia De'Alwis is making an amazingly speedy recovery and now looks forward to a very special Christmas this year. According to The Daily Mail, the doctors are happy that De'Alwis is making a speedy discovery ever since the song has been played at the hospital's radio.

One Chicago research team has squirrel on the brain. Their new research project focuses on how the little rodents survive in the city. The team had captured and tagged a number of squirrels with collars with cameras to see how they survive and why they do the things they do.

A team of researches from the Princeton University have discovered that lack of sleep could lead to memory loss and they suggest that people take a nap to reverse the effect of sleep deprivation. British scientists studied rats which were deprived of sleep for up to 72 hours. According to the New Scientists, sleep deprivation in rats causes stress hormones to accumulate in a part f the brain called the hippocampus, which stops the growth of cells that lay down new memories.