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The crackle of electricity inside your brain has long been too complex to decode. Artificial intelligence is changing that.

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Scientists have new insight into why we have trouble focusing after a bad night of sleep. Attention lapses when we’re sleep-deprived result from our brain’s efforts to clean itself up, a process that ...

The brain goes through five distinct stages between birth and death, a new study shows. Scientists identified the average ages—9, 32, 66 and 83—when the pattern of connections inside our brains shift.

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The brain is not only mysterious, but strange. Here are five weirdities about that 3 pounds of tofu-like material between your ears. 1). If you laid out all of the blood vessels in your brain ...

You’ve heard of plastic polluting oceans. But what if it’s polluting you—your brain, your reproductive system, even your unborn children? In this eye-opening episode, we speak with Prof. Matthew ...

Inside is a chair and a device that resembles a hair dryer hood. We are in the brand new PTB Charité OPM MEG Center. Here, Uhlhaas’s latest acquisition is set up: an optically pumped magnetometer. It ...