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A five-year “adversarial collaboration” of scientists led to a stagy showdown in front of an audience. It crowned no winners—but it’s still progress. ..
A five-year “adversarial collaboration” of scientists led to a stagy showdown in front of an audience. It crowned no winners—but it’s still progress. ..
The comprehensive collection of 21 studies attempts to map all the brain’s cell types and offers hope of one day being able to trace brain diseases to their ..
Mounting research suggests that cephalopods experience pain. Now, the National Institutes of Health is considering new animal welfare rules that would ..
Mini-brains that work and grow like their full-sized counterparts could offer an alternative to animal testing, and advance the quest for personalized ..
Do fruit flies remember their larval lives? To find out, scientists made the neurons inside larvae glow, then tracked how they reshuffled as they formed ..
Brain injury from contact sports doesn't just affect professional athletes. A new study of amateur athletes who died before turning 30 reveals that many ..
New experiments show that the brain distinguishes between perceived and imagined mental images by checking whether they cross a “reality threshold." ..
The test, which consumers can order on their own, measures a protein linked to Alzheimer’s called amyloid beta. But it can’t diagnose cases, and the results ..
Language can shape how you think in subtle and profound ways. But most researchers only study English speakers. ..
Relearning everyday tasks is difficult for people with brain trauma. These researchers want to know if combining physical therapy with doses of oxygen ..