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The Pill prevents as many as 30,000 deaths each year, study says
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Neuroscience is confirming what we all suspect: Multitasking is dumbing us down and driving us crazy. One man’s odyssey through the nightmare of infinite connectivity
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One of my favorite features of NetNewsWire is how it works with a bunch of other desktop apps.
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Researchers use gene therapy to stop pain signals before they reach the brain.
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A study by two nonprofit journalism organizations found that President Bush and top administration officials issued hundreds of false statements about the national security threat from Iraq in the two years following the 2001 terrorist attacks.
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Claudia Hammond explores new research into the science of disgust. It is a unique emotion that has evolved to control our gut reactions to bodily fluids and prevent us from coming in contact with disease.
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Learning and memory — abilities associated with a brain or, at the very least, neuronal activity — have been observed in protoplasmic slime, a unicellular organism with multiple nuclei.
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Think you’re smarter than a fifth-grader? How about a 5-year-old chimp? Japanese researchers pitted young chimps against human adults in tests of short-term memory, and overall, the chimps won.
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Stimulating just one neuron can be enough to affect learning and behaviour, researchers have found.
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