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- Bigger Brains Not Always Smarter
- When it comes to brain size, bigger is not necessarily better, some scientists say.
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- Clearing Out the Brain's Inbox
- New neurons in adult brains clear away the remnants of old memories to make room for new ones.
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- Humans Still Evolving as Our Brains Shrink
- Shrinking brains and lactose intolerance are two signs that human evolution is still at work.
More Brain News and Information
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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.
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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.
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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
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