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Back to SearchAre You a Lucid Dreamer?
A sleep researcher who studies what dreams can tell us about the possible onset of some mental disorders believes lucid dreamers might hold a lot of …
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Here's What 'Oppenheimer' Gets Right--And Wrong--About Nuclear History
Here’s what a historian who has studied J. Robert Oppenheimer for two decades has to say about the new Christopher Nolan film on the father of the at…
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How Stress Messes With Your Gut
Inflammatory bowel disease flare-ups can be traced to mental stress
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Should We Care About AI's Emergent Abilities?
Here’s how large language models, or LLMs, actually work.
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What That Jazz Beat Tells Us about Hearing and The Brain
Very small delays in swing jazz point to our evolution as a supremely auditory species.
2 years, 6 months ago
Who Was Alessandra Giliani, 14th Century Teen Anatomist?
Was a teenager named Alessandra Giliani the western world’s first female anatomist? In 14th century Italy, women were strictly barred from medical re…
2 years, 6 months ago
Just like People, Orangutans Get Smoker's Voice
New research has discovered that wildfire smoke hurts these primates’ voice—and health.
2 years, 6 months ago
Doctor AI Will See You Now
ChatGPT and other AI programs can offer medical advice. But how good are they?
2 years, 6 months ago
El Niño is Back. What Does That Mean For You?
The famous climate pattern El Niño could usher in a new hottest year on record and will have domino effects on the world’s weather.
2 years, 6 months ago
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The Kavli Prize Presents: How Your Brain Maps the World [Sponsored]
John O’Keefe shared the Kavli Prize in Neuroscience in 2014 for discovering that neurons in the hippocampus encode an animal’s location and create a …
2 years, 6 months ago