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Clear Cranial Implant Lets Doctors See Into The Brain
Science Some skulls really just need a window view. Researchers from the University of California, Riverside have debuted a new transparent cranial implant that could let doctors peek inside the brain...
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Artificial Neurons Could Replace Some Real Ones In Your Brain
Science A new way to fix neurological disorders The neurons in your brain are exquisitely designed to transmit signals—as many as 1 trillion bits per second, according to some estimates. The cells use...
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Infections during pregnancy may help autism develop—and scientists are...
Health Our immune systems aren’t perfect. Researchers identified a mechanism through which bacteria in the gut interact with the immune system during pregnancy in ways that can lead to...
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The weirdest things we learned this week: The first celebrity diet, confused...
Science Three PopSci editors share the freakiest facts they could find. What’s the weirdest thing you learned this week? Well, whatever it is, we promise you’d have an even weirder answer if you’d...
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There’s finally a drug that prevents migraines instead of just treating them
Health The FDA's approval shows we're getting closer to understanding these headaches The migraine therapy’s mechanism of action has been in the works for decades, but took researchers a long time to...
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A mysterious polio-like illness in children has the CDC baffled
Health Sudden muscle weakness and paralysis has been hitting young kids, and experts haven't pinned down a cause. Truly mysterious illnesses don’t come around that often. Sudden, tiny outbreaks of...
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4 reasons you should eat more mushrooms
Health A mushrooming list of reasons to embrace fungi. Even setting aside magic mushrooms, our favorite fungal fruiting bodies supposedly have some spectacular healing properties.
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Flickering light seems to help mice with Alzheimer’s-like symptoms
Health The next question is whether the same treatment will work in humans. In a new study out this week that builds on past work, a team of researchers found that light pulses protect against...
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We're still finding new ways in which the Zika virus hurts infants
Health Zika causes neurodevelopmental delays in one-third of infants, according to a new study. Nearly a third of infants whose mothers were infected with Zika while pregnant, though, experience...
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Americans reported hearing torturous sounds in Cuba—and now their brains seem...
Health People with “Havana syndrome” have differences in their brains compared to healthy people. A new study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), used brain scans to...
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