From an early age, children are very skilled in imitating the actions of others and are so motivated to do so that they will even copy actions for no reason. (Stock image)
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A tiny treeshrew brain saps just as much of the body's energy as a human brain, researchers report. Shown in red are the blood vessels that deliver glucose to fuel cellular activities.
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In a paper published today in the journal Nature, the ALPHA collaboration reports the first ever measurement on the optical spectrum of an antimatter atom. This achievement features technological developments that open up a completely...
We spend a lot of time listening to our own inner speech. But to what extent does the brain distinguish between inner speech and the sounds we produce when we speak out loud?
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About 40 percent of the top selling sunscreens on Amazon.com don't meet the American Academy of Dermatology's guidelines for sunscreens. This was largely due to a lack of water or sweat resistance, according to a new Northwestern Medicine study.
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Researcher Rob Gaunt prepares Nathan Copeland for brain computer interface sensory test. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 12 October 2016, issue of Science Translational Medicine, published by AAAS. The paper, by S.N. Flesher at...
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If you're reading about the US election, some of that news is likely to come to you from a "bot."
Automated systems known as "bots" or "robo-journalism" have been around for years, but they are playing...
Credit: Jack Dongarra, Report on the Sunway TaihuLight System, June 2016
A Chinese supercomputer has topped a list of the world's fastest computers for the seventh straight year—and for the first time the winner uses only Chinese-designed processors instead of...
By stimulating the brains of Parkinson's patients using electrodes, neurologists at France's CHU Saint-Étienne University Hospital found that this surgical technique could improve motor performance by 70% and reduce medication-based treatment by 40 to 60%.
When medication is no longer...
This is an artist's impression of the cool red star above NGTS-1b.
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A giant planet, which should not exist according to planet formation theory, has been discovered around a distant star. The new research is...
Hoi-Ying Holman, director of the Berkeley Synchrotron Infrared Structural Biology (BSISB) Program, has developed a technique using the Advanced Light Source to rapidly screen cells to tell if they're bacteria or archaea.
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