New research reported in Nature has found that our sense of what our body's doing comes more from our brain's knowledge of the messages it has sent than any message back from the senses. The finding sheds light on "phantom limbs" as well as helping us understand how we move.

On a lighter note, Wired have an article about the Nintendo Brain Games I mentioned a week or two ago.

And Scientific American report on a recent study that found babies as young as 10 months are capable of associating an object with a word -- but only if the object is of interest to them.