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neuroscience

Multiple images of brain

Health

Grand project to unify global efforts to understand the brain

A New York neuroscience summit aims to coordinate big money brain projects around the world, but will delegates agree on the field's top priorities?

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Building blocks of memories seen in brains for the first time

Humans

Building blocks of memories seen in brains for the first time

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lots of bats in flight at dusk, with one lit up in the foreground

Technology

Nanobots could swarm like bats to hunt out brain tumours

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a rat moving fast - all its legs off the grass. it looks very purposeful

Life

Rewinding memories may help us recall where the good stuff is

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A green, transparent mouse

Life

Mouse's body made entirely transparent to reveal nervous system

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silhouette of a person next to a sign pointing the way to a polling station

Humans

Our biases get in the way of understanding human behaviour

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A well providing drinking water to the tiny town of Hugo, Colo. is treated as a crime scene, July 22, 2016. Residents of the small town have been told not to drink the water after it was found to be contaminated with THC, the psychoactive chemical in marijuana -- possibly a result of tampering.

Health

Why do we fall for false positives even though they're common?

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Illustration of three different kinds of brain cell

Health

Mysterious dark brain cells linked to Alzheimer’s and stress

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Revealed: the teenage brain upgrades that occur before adulthood

Humans

Revealed: the teenage brain upgrades that occur before adulthood

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People walking on giant map of a city, with plenty of giant multicoloured pins marking important places

Life

Memories of favourite locations have a special place in brain

The hippocampus is a brain area important for general navigation, and now it seems that mice use a specific part of it to store significant locations

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Humans

First evidence that synaesthesia gives colour to sign language

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Life

When is an animal a person? Neuroscience tries to set the rules

Insight

Humans

How the size and shape of your glass affects how much you drink

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Health

Fixed by light: Flick a switch to banish pain and blindness

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