A psychologist outlines a new understanding of how the brain forms memories, not by taking snapshots but by re-creating them ...

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Researchers made a rat’s front-leg movement trigger its back leg. The experiment could point to a new kind of body-based ...

As AI churns out mathematical proofs, a DeepMind study raises a bigger question: What do we lose when we focus only on the ...

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Plastic smells like supper for some seabirds. When the ubiquitous material ends up in the ocean, it gives off a chemical that ...

Losing your voice can feel like losing part of yourself. Can voice-cloning technology help people find themselves again?

Turning invisible is a handy superpower in fiction — we don’t see you, Sue Storm! — but the technology to make it work in ...

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Theories that aquatic foraging drove human evolution have a fraught past. But the pair argue it granted stamina that other ...

An icy window into the cosmos, a light switch for the brain and solving the mystery of mirror image molecules all took home ...