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

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Across a typical lifetime, the human brain does not simply grow, peak, and decline. It passes through five sweeping ...

Paradox: Eating more dietary omega-3s is associated with superior cognitive longevity. But there is not a strong signal for ...

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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 ...

The first healthy volunteers have been dosed in an early clinical trial testing NRG5051, a disease-modifying therapy for ALS ...

A context-driven memory model simulates a wide range of characteristics of waking and sleeping hippocampal replay, providing ...