A pod of spinner dolphins in the Red Sea.
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Complex behaviour such as regional accents and cultural food preferences in whales and dolphins seems to be linked to brain size.
Oxycodone-acetaminophen pills.
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Drug addiction isn’t about bad habits, fear of withdrawal or a selfish search for pleasure. It’s about the brain.
Dr. Zahra Moussavi tests a device that stimulates the brain with magnetic pulses. The experimental technology can temporarily roll back effects of Alzheimer’s disease.
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When Zahra Moussavi’s mother developed Alzheimer’s, the scientist pursued a technology that directly stimulates the brain with electromagnets to mitigate the effects of the disease. It worked.
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New research gives weight to Noam Chomsky’s idea of a universal language ability.
There are benefits to sport participation, and it is important for parents to be aware of concussion risks, how to avoid them, and the signs when they may have occurred.
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As students return to school and prepare to join sports teams, here’s what they and their parents need to know about concussions.
Dreams are like a forest walkway: there’s no clear sense of direction and you can easily get lost.
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Niamh, age 7, wants to know why we have scary dreams. But after 200 years of study, dreams are still very much a mystery.
Shifting mindsets.
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People’s minds can be fooled into experiencing both pain and pain relief.
Chickens have personalities, too.
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Research suggests it could be down to how our brains are wired.
Color-changing cells in an Atlantic squid’s skin contain light-sensitive pigments.
Alexandra Kingston
We’re used to thinking of our eyes detecting light as the foundation of our visual system. But what’s going on in other cells throughout the body that can detect light, too?
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Areas of the brain are being mapped, much like the towns, cities and countries represented in a typical atlas.
Functional magnetic resonance imaging could reveal whether someone knows something they’re not telling.
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Using mind reading technologies in court could become common practice.
Neural stem cells that have been transplanted into a mouse brain, here developing into neurons.
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A study in mice shows that transplantation of healthy stem cells into the brain’s hypothalamus can boost lifespan considerably.
Visual illusions can tell us a lot about how our brain interprets the world.
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Visual illusions provide an inkling of the mental processing that delivers our experience of the world.
People with chronic bowel conditions may need to use the toilet 20 to 30 times a day.
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Our brain and gut are constantly talking to each other, so it makes sense mental health and stomach issues have a close relationship.
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Interview with the scientist Claude Berrou, inventor of the turbocodes that protect the data of the connected objects. Today, he is exploring the neurosciences.
Canada in 2167 could see genetically engineered humans living alongside sentient machines in cities radically altered by ecological change.
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By 2167, genetically designed, digitally enhanced humans with Internet-connected brains will live with intelligent machines in a transformed environment and maybe even among the stars.
I promise, it’s good for your brain.
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New research adds to the evidence that playing is linked to learning brain power in primates.
Barack Obama signs at his desk.
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People who have an extreme preference for using their right hand may be worse at maths, according to new research.
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A podcast on what music does to our brains, and why it moves us.
‘Man at the crossroads’
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A new study of how frequently certain words were used between 1800 and 2000 shows that political power as a guiding principle is more important than money and religious belief.