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Turning off the camera when trying to hash out new ideas might help → Read More
Microglia are amoeba-like cells that scour the brain for injuries and invaders. But sometimes the usually helpful cells go into overdrive and damage the brain, researchers say. → Read More
Without a cure for Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia, prevention is paramount. Habits that helped early humans thrive still make sense: a varied diet, exercise and an engaging social life. → Read More
The give-and-take of formal arguments is still outside of a machine’s “comfort zone”—at least for now → Read More
Duke anthropologist Brian Hare argues that humans evolved in a way that left us more cooperative and friendlier than our now extinct human cousins, like Neanderthals and Denisovans. → Read More
Humans’ spatial recall makes mental notes about the location of high-calorie foods → Read More
The avian cortex had been hiding in plain sight all along. Humans were just too birdbrained to see it → Read More
Humans have a history of status division stretching back at least 4,000 years → Read More
The so-called organoids are not capable of complex thought but could be used to study neurological diseases → Read More
Shutting down an inflammatory molecule could potentially provide treatment days after onset → Read More
Neural processing centers repeat recent sequences of events to lay down new memories used for abstract thought → Read More
A still-controversial test could be administered to toddlers to gauge their chances → Read More
Among the various malignancies that can afflict the human body, few bring with them the dour prognoses of brain tumors → Read More
We now know that MS is not infectious in the true sense of the word. It is not contagious in the way, say, the flu is. But infection does likely play a role in MS. → Read More
As the story goes, nearly 80 years ago on the Faroe Islands - a stark North Atlantic arc → Read More
Will a general algorithm that masters chess, go and shogi succeed as well for games with less-defined rules? → Read More
Will a general algorithm that masters chess, go and shogi succeed as well for games with less-defined rules? → Read More
Neural regions underlying risk-taking and regret may one day point toward treatments for compulsive betting → Read More
Neural regions underlying risk-taking and regret may one day point toward treatments for compulsive betting → Read More
Money has poured into Alzheimer's research, but until very recently not much of it went toward investigating infection in causing dementia. A million dollar prize may lead more scientists to try. → Read More