Ann McKee Is on a Quest to Save Humanity’s Brains
When she describes the moment she realized that CTE and football were connected, she sounds…
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It takes just 108 milliseconds for our brains to spot food
Distinct signatures of electrical activity occur in our brains when we see foodMarian Weyo/Shutterstock Our…
Language recognition is as much about brains as it is about hearing
How well we understand spoken language may depend more on our brains than our ears.…
How Insect Brains Melt and Rewire During Metamorphosis
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.On warm summer nights, green lacewings…
Fruit flies offer clues to how brains make reward-based decisions
Like many collectors of L.P. records, James Fitzgerald's brother-in-law has a favorite store where he…
Mice grown with rat brains to help study cross-species organ donation
Mice with forebrains composed of rat and mouse cellsJia Huang Hundreds of mouse pups with…
Evolution wired human brains to act like supercomputers
Scientists have confirmed that human brains are naturally wired to perform advanced calculations, much like…