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Do people dream in color or black and white?
Whether we report having dreams in color or in black and white may be influenced by the media we watch, or perhaps that simply influences the way we remember them.
You don't need to be very happy to avoid an early death from chronic disease, study finds
A new study suggests that being happier could help reduce your risk of dying prematurely from chronic diseases like cancer, diabetes and heart disease. But the threshold at which this happiness effect kicks in is fairly low.
New study reveals why time seems to move faster the older we get
A new study hints that age-related changes in our brains may explain why time feels like it's slipping away faster with every passing year.
How do our brains wake up?
How do we go from sound asleep to awake in the blink of an eye?
Diagnostic dilemma: A brain lesion gave a woman a lifetime of joyless laughing fits
A woman had experienced sudden bursts of uncontrolled laughter her whole life. A brain scan revealed why.
Scientists used AI to map uncharted areas of the mouse brain
A new brain map details regions of the organ that had previously been difficult to chart.
In 'Secrets of the Brain,' Jim Al-Khalili explores 600 million years of brain evolution to understand what makes us human
In his new BBC show, Jim Al-Khalili journeys through hundreds of millions of years of brain evolution. Live Science spoke to him about what he learned along the way and how this knowledge sheds new light on human cognition.
Owning a cat will change your brain. Here's how.
When you cuddle a cat, the ‘love hormone’ oxytocin is rising in both your brains.
If tiny lab-grown 'brains' became conscious, would it still be OK to experiment on them?
A perspective paper published this week argued that brain organoids could soon gain consciousness, and we should consider stricter regulations around them.
Tiny 'brains' grown in the lab could become conscious and feel pain — and we're not ready
Lab-grown brain tissue is too simple to experience consciousness, but as innovation progresses, neuroscientists question whether it's time to revisit the ethics of this line of research.
