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Topic: Neuroscience

AI head. (Getty Images / Andriy Onufriyenko)

AI is making us dumber

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Young woman next to lighttrace face, wearing VR glasses, looking closely at the lightrace rendering. (Getty Images / Henrik Sorensen)

How virtual reality can alter the "self"

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Baby boy having brain tested, Seattle, Washington. (Getty Images / Aaron MCcoy)

What's it like to be a baby?

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Scheme of parts of human brain with circuit board as brain anatomy. (Getty Images / Grafissimo)

Humans think — AI, not so much

Carlyn Zwarenstein
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Neuronal network, conceptual illustration. (CHRISTOPH BURGSTEDT/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Getty Images)

Are concept neurons what make us human?

Carlyn Zwarenstein
Calm and angry woman (Getty Images/dinachi)

The power of encountering mixed emotions

Elizabeth Hlavinka
An isolated person. (cokada / Getty Images)

Why you may feel like nothing matters

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Volunteers offering food to help the homeless. (kuarmungadd / Getty Images)

Altruism is a great survival strategy

Nicole Karlis
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Woman climbs the stairs from darkness to light (Getty Images/Photobank Kiev)

How to thrive in uncertainty

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Dog nose between pink cherry blossoms (Getty Images/Ve Shandor/500px)

Why smell and sight are close friends

Carlyn Zwarenstein
Executive director of Moore Institute for Plastic Pollution Research uses a stereo scope to examine a sediment sample to identify microplastics within a sample in Long Beach on Tuesday, October 1, 2024. (Leonard Ortiz/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images)

Microplastics in brains are accumulating

Matthew Rozsa
Person admiring the Northern Lights (aurora borealis) (Getty Images/Marco Bottigelli)

Psychedelic healing and feelings of awe

Elizabeth Hlavinka
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Alzheimers and dementia research, a brain scan in multi well tray used for research experiments in laboratory (Getty Images/Andrew Brookes)

Alzheimer’s may not be from amyloids

Joshua Cohen - Undark
Doctor pointing to brain scan images (Getty Images/Tom Werner)

Humans think slower than expected

Matthew Rozsa
Biological clock (Getty Images/nambitomo)

Memory problems? It may be lack of sleep

Matthew Rozsa
Digital Brain Upload (Getty Images/Yuichiro Chino)

Uploading the brain to live forever

Matthew Rozsa
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Emoji badges (Getty Images/Dimitri Otis)

Neuroscience of simultaneous emotions

Anthony Gianni Vaccaro - The Conversation
Healthy fresh blooming red rose among a row of other dried dead roses (Getty Images/enviromantic)

How "hopeful skeptics" outsmart Doomers

Rae Hodge
Anti-Racism protest. (Getty Images/LeoPatrizi)

Racism and discrimination age you faster

Negar Fani, Nathaniel Harnett - The Conversation
Octopus with diver's hand underwater (Getty Images/Martin Steinthaler)

Plumbing the depths of animal minds

Carlyn Zwarenstein
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Brain in Space (Getty Images/Jumpstart Studios)

Can science crack our consciousness?

Rae Hodge
Doctor looking at CT scan (Getty Images/1440525438)

Brains are larger but are we smarter?

Matthew Rozsa
Human brain scan in neurology clinic (Getty Images/Westend61)

COVID-19 leaves its mark on the brain

Ziyad Al-Aly - The Conversation
Alzheimers and dementia research, a brain scan in multi well tray used for research experiments in laboratory (Getty Images/Andrew Brookes)

Understanding the brain's sewage system

Nicole Karlis
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