Brain Surgery Simulator
(YouTube Link) This CBC news story describes a brain surgery simulator that doctors in Halifax, Canada use for practice before cutting open real patients. It simulates not a generic human brain, but...
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Women’s Tears May Reduce Men’s Testosterone
Humans are believed to be the only creatures that produce tears because of emotions like sadness and joy. But researchers at Israel’s Weizmann Institute of Science may have found another function for...
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Brain: Getting Dumped and Getting Burned Are The Same Pain
Literature is filled with examples of the pain of heartbreak, but leave it to science to prove that to our brain, the pain of getting dumped and getting burned is actually one and the same: In a new...
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Is There a Scientific Explanation for Justin Bieber?
For more than a century, social scientists have attempted to create a model that will accurately predict what images, songs, or memes will become popular. Now Gregory Berns, a neuroeconomist at Emory...
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Learnin’ Matrix-Style!
Remember the Matrix where all you need to do to learn kung fu is to get it uploaded to your brain? Well, that may soon be coming to real life: New research published today in the journal Science...
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Scientists Had Humans and Monkeys Watch a Clint Eastwood Movie to Study Their...
In order to examine the way that the human brain evolved differently from that of other primates, scientists arranged for selected humans and monkeys to watch the Clint Eastwood movie The Good, the...
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