Enlarge this image Marines based in Okinawa, Japan, fire an M136 AT-4 rocket launcher as part of a weapons training exercise on…
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Enlarge this image Scientists placed two clusters of cultured forebrain cells side by side (each cluster the size of a head of…
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How People Learned To Recognize Monkey Calls Reveals How We All Make Sense Of Sound
by Jon Hamilton April 18, 2018Enlarge this image How do we make sense of all that chatter? Ilana Kohn/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Ilana Kohn/Getty Images…
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Enlarge this image A hippocampal neuron seen in culture. Dendrites are green, dendritic spines are red and DNA is blue. Science Source/Getty…
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Scientists Explore Ties Between Alzheimer’s And Brain’s Ancient Immune System
by Jon Hamilton February 18, 2018Enlarge this image This light micrograph of a part of a brain affected by Alzheimer’s disease shows an accumulation of darkened plaques,…
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YouTube Love is complicated, scientifically speaking. There’s no single, specific “love chemical” that surges through our bodies when we see our beloved,…
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‘Invisibilia’: The Otherworldly Alien Hand Syndrome, Animated
by Menaka Wilhelm February 9, 2018YouTube Karen Byrne’s left hand sometimes operates on its own terms. It has unbuttoned shirts and stubbed out cigarettes, without her permission.…
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Enlarge this image Maria Fabrizio for NPR Maria Fabrizio for NPR When Sarah Jay had her first seizure, she was in her…