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  Top 10 Mysteries of the First Humans

  Humans are unique among life on this planet, and much remains a mystery as to how we evolved.

• Why 'Sleeping on It' Helps

  How does "sleeping on it" help your decision-making process?

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  First-time Internet Use Alters Activity in Older Brains

  Adults with little internet experience show changes in their brain activity after just one week online, a new study has found

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  Monkey Drumming Suggests the Origin of Music

  Primate communication systems shed light on the origins of language and music.

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  How Fake Treatments Reduce Real Pain

  People who believe a pain treatment is working have reduced pain signaling in their spinal cord, says a new study.

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  Speed of Thought-to-Speech Traced in Brain

  Electrodes implanted in brains of epileptics show neural steps of language production.

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  Do Cell Phones Cause Brain Tumors? Tough Call

  A review of existing research discerned no overall link. But some studies found a link.

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  Scientists See Numbers Inside People's Heads

  Scientists can watch brain activity to decipher what number you're thinking of.

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  Booze: Possible Treatment for Brain Injury

  Study shows patients with alcohol in the bloodstream were less likely to die from head trauma than the alcohol-free.

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  10 of Fiction's Biggest Brains

  And as in life, fictional characters use their big brains for good or evil.

• Do Brains Shrink As We Age?

  Scientists may have overestimated how much our brain shrinks as we age, a new study suggests

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  Robot to Get Human Brain Cells

  It's all cooked up in a broth of nutrients zapped by electricity.

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  Brain Scans Often Unnecessary

  Study finds that fMRI can do more harm than good.

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  Your Brain Is Organized Like a City

  Neurobiologist Mark Changizi sees strikingly real similarities between the two.

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  Nostrils Take Turns Smelling

  When confronted with two different smells, nostrils take turns smelling.

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  What Makes a Psychopath? Answers Remain Elusive

  Scientists are investigating if there are natural born killers.

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  Seeing with Your Tongue

  The Wicab BrainPort uses the tongue to sense incoming visual information,aimed at helping people who are blind or who have extremely low vision.

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  New Theory Questions Why We Sleep

  Researchers still can't figure out the reason we need shut-eye.

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  Bionics Gives Blind Woman Partial Vision

  A camera is built into a pair of glasses that sends signals to a tiny chip implanted in the back of the retina and stimulates nerves that lead to the vision center of the brain, helping seeing impaired people see again.

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  Fire Used to Make Better Tools 75,000 Years Ago

  Humans used fire to improve stone tools much earlier than thought, archaeologists found.

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  Thanks, Fido! Cancer Drugs Tested on Pets

  Pets with cancer can help scientists develop novel therapies against the disease