Lots of us have trouble remembering the name of the person we just met.

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HOW many universes are there? Cosmologists Andrei Linde and Vitaly Vanchurin at Stanford University in California calculate that the number . . . of universes. . . may depend on the human brain.

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How much more could you get done if you completed all of your required reading in 1/3 or 1/5 the time? Increasing reading speed is a process of controlling fine motor movement—period.

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Excerpt: Summit Middle School last week made national headlines for an incident of students "smoking" the candy Smarties — a strange, non-flammable exercise that could be a sign these kids are bridging themselves toward adulthood.

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Similar to an economic theory, where efficient markets respond to unexpected events and expected events have no effect, we found that the dopaminergic system of the human brain seems to be wired in a similar rational manner -- tuned to learn whenever anything unexpected happens b …

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No wonder religion is so prevalent in human society – our brains are primed for it, says Michael Brooks.

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Japanese researchers said Thursday they had created functioning human brain tissues from stem cells, a world first that has raised new hopes for the treatment of disease.

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Deep-seated political differences aren't simply moral and intellectual: they're also biological. In reflex tests of 46 political partisans, psychologists found that conservatives were more likely than liberals to be shocked by sudden threats.

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The human mind is a remarkable device. Nevertheless, it is not without limits. Recently, a growing body of research has focused on a particular mental limitation, which has to do with our ability to use a mental trait known as executive function.

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Bloomberg reports: Gay men and straight women share brain characteristics that suggest sexual preferences may be innate rather than learned, researchers said. Lesbians and heterosexual men also had similar brain tendencies.

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Scientists at Carnegie Mellon University have taken an important step toward understanding how the human brain codes the meanings of words by creating the first computational model that can predict the unique brain activation patterns assthought, thinking, ociated with names for  …

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Man with rare memory can recall every detail of his life

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CURVIER women may have smart children because hip fat contains polyunsaturated fatty acids critical for the development of the fetus's brain.

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For the first time, researchers have developed a way to view stem cells in the brains of living animals, including humans—a finding that allows scientists to follow the process neurogenesis (the birth of neurons).

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Science Daily — Drug abuse, crime and obesity are but a few of the problems our nation faces, but they all have one thing in common--people's failure to control their behavior in the face of temptation.

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How to deal with communication overload and clear your head

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From creatively carved pumpkins ... to ghost stories ... to creepy costumes for workplace haunts ... to organ-eating vampires, the brain rewires to believe in and validate what we do. How does it work?

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The appearance of language has been ascribed to factors ranging from finer control over our voices; the evolution of a grammar module in the brain; even the shift to a meat-based diet. Professor Terrence Deacon takes a very different view.

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Your exercise routine might focus on boosting heart health, losing weight or strengthening muscles and bones. This short article addresses the fitness needs of your body's all-important command center—your brain.

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Some Scientists have discovered how to optimize text for consumption by our brains and ease the strain on our eyes resulting in a much faster reading pace and much higher comprehension rate.

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C'mon, linking actual brain cells to a silicon chip might sound a bit sensational at first, but considering the work that's already been done on replacement retinas and human brains, Ted Berger's recently-hyped work is pretty much right on time.

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The human brain is a fascinating organ, but it's an absolute mess. Because it has evolved over millions of years, there are all sorts of processes jumbled together rather than logically organized.

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42 of the biggest questions in science including but not limited to:

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One of the most intriguing mysteries of biology is why humans are the only species with a brain smart enough to ponder their own existence.Researchers at the University of California at Santa Cruz believe they have discovered a possible answer: a gene that has undergone powerful  …

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The human brain continues to produce new nerve cells throughout its life and these neurons may be key to learning new information. But many of these novice neurons wither and die before joining the vast signaling network of their mature peers.

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