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Injecting a Gene Into Monkeys’ Brains Curbed Their Alcohol Use

When they conducted postmortem examinations of the monkeys’ brains, the team also confirmed that the treated animals had replenished levels of dopamine. In the...

Using new technique, researchers make surprising discoveries about how flies’ brains respond to tastes

Taste matters to fruit flies, just as it does to humans: like people, the flies tend to seek out and consume sweet-tasting foods and...

To Learn More Quickly, Brain Cells Break Their DNA

Faced with a threat, the brain has to act fast, its neurons making new connections to learn what might spell the difference between life...

This Is What It’s Like to Live Without Smell

Because of Covid-19, thousands of people around the world have lost their sense of smell, some of them for months. But like so...

The Brain’s ‘Background Noise’ May Be Meaningful After All

At a sleep research symposium in January 2020, Janna Lendner presented findings that hint at a way to look at people’s brain activity for...

Desktop PCs run simulations of mammals’ brains

University of Sussex academics have established a method of turbocharging desktop PCs to give them the same capability as supercomputers worth tens of millions...

Designing customized ‘brains’ for robots: A new system devises hardware architectures to hasten robots’ response time

Contemporary robots can move quickly. "The motors are fast, and they're powerful," says Sabrina Neuman. Yet in complex situations, like interactions with people, robots often...

A New Study About Color Tries to Decode ‘The Brain’s Pantone’

At first, Conway was pretty skeptical that he would get any results. “The word on the street is that MEG has very crappy spatial...

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