What separates humans from our animal relatives? A big, beautiful brain. Human brain power has invented things such as art, governments, language, literature, machines, medicines, music, schools and transport. The list goes on, but there is still much we don’t know about the brain. Just this month, scientists from Cambridge University in England discovered that swimming in cold water could act like hibernation in animals and repair damage to human brains. It is hoped this could help researchers uncover even more of the brain’s secrets.
A human computer
An adult brain looks a bit like a wrinkled walnut but it works like a computer’s central processing unit for our entire body. It controls our ability to hear, learn, move, remember, smell, speak, think, touch and feel hunger and pain. James…
