In 2000, the measles virus was declared eliminated from the United States. Despite cases coming in from outside the country,
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Advent, Advent, the mother runs
November is the month in the middle-aged women in super markets of the so-called crotchety goods around, your lunch break
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Brain-inspired computing could tackle big problems in a small way
While computers have become smaller and more powerful and supercomputers and parallel computing have become the standard, we are about
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Brain waves detected in mini-brains grown in a dish
Scientists have created miniature brains from stem cells that developed functional neural networks. Despite being a million times smaller than
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Two fraudsters, one passport: Computers more accurate than humans at detecting fraudulent identity photos
Computers are more accurate than humans at detecting digitally manipulated ID photos, which merge the images of two people, new
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The brain’s pathways to imagination may hold the key to altruistic behavior: When we see people in trouble, we also imagine how we can help before we act
In those split seconds when people witness others in distress, neural pathways in the brain support the drive to help
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Best male biathletes ‘more attractive’
Top male biathletes are more attractive to the opposite sex, according to a new study by scientists at the universities
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A NEAT discovery about memory: A noncoding RNA may play an important role in memory formation
You could call this a neat discovery. Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham have found that a tissue-specific,
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Misjudging the strength of other people’s emotions based on egocentric bias
People of all ages tend to misjudge the strength of other people’s emotions based on an egocentric bias, according to
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How the Internet may be changing the brain
An international team of researchers from Western Sydney University, Harvard University, Kings College, Oxford University and University of Manchester have
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