Every time we show facial gestures, it feels effortless, but the brain is quietly coordinating an intricate performance.

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University of Virginia School of Medicine researchers have revealed how the popular, low-carb ketogenic diet protects against ...

The way the brain develops can shape us throughout our lives, so neuroscientists are intensely curious about how it happens.

In a nutshell, string theory is a sprawling realm of theoretical physics that assumes that tiny vibrating strings are the ...

Does string theory—the controversial “theory of everything” from physics—tell us anything about consciousness and the human ...

Most cell surface proteins did not. But 16 did, including two found in the human dopamine neurons of the substantia nigra, a ...

The world’s most powerful supercomputers can now run simulations of billions of neurons, and researchers hope such models ...

A large genetic screen has revealed how stem cells transform into brain cells, exposing hundreds of genes that make this ...

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