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Researchers are looking at neurons required for touch-mediated pain relief.
Don’t worry that your dog’s world is visually drab.
And it's much, much less expensive.
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“What you pay attention to, is your life.” Where do you place precious brain resources?
John Templeton Foundation
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Do humans have souls, or are we just particles? Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder explains.
When you can't enter flow, you can still lean on your internal rhythm.
Over time, different structures in the brain come to play unique roles in the storage and retrieval of long-term memories.
Solving difficult visual puzzles seems to help the brain "rewire" itself by forming new neural pathways.
People with shingles have an approximately 80% higher risk of stroke than those without the disease.
The "subarachnoidal lymphatic-like membrane" helps shield and protect the brain.
"Jumping genes" exist in various forms, including as remnants of ancient retroviruses, and make up about 45% of the human genome.
The majority of children who stutter will spontaneously recover from it without intervention, but some 20% of people do not.
Boredom isn’t the enemy; it’s a catalyst for changing your relationship to work.
It was originally recorded in the 1970s by cognitive psychologists Harry McGurk and John MacDonald.
Only recently have scientists directly witnessed this most pivotal of events in biology.
Sharing food and kissing are among the signals babies use to interpret their social world, according to a new study.
It was a particularly good year for biotech and medical technology. There were also notable advances in energy.
What if you could just grow your own blood?
They could also "turn off" their fear.
When we're stressed, our hormones and nervous system produce all sorts of odors.
These were the stories you clicked on the most.
Parity tasks (such as odd and even categorisation) are considered abstract and high-level numerical concepts in humans.
Sleep less, sleep less, sleep more.
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Our society is in a mental health crisis. Are psychedelics the way out?
Belief in God and the afterlife increased, while belief in superstition decreased.
To prevent overloading the memory system, the brain may have a mechanism that tosses out certain types of memories.
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Everything you ever wanted to know about the Universe, explained by physicist Sean Carroll.