Blinking may seem simple, but it reveals surprising clues about your nervous system and brain activity. Skip to content. ... You do it about 14,000 times a day without thinking.

SCIENTISTS have discovered our brains shut down every time we blink. They believe parts of the mind turn off so humans do not notice the sudden change from light to dark and back again. Many Big ...

Unless you think about it, you'll never notice your eyes blink. But for race drivers pushing their vehicles well above 200 mph (322 kph), their world goes dark for a third of a second, which could ...