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Brain farts: 9 ways your brain can make you feel stupid
Ever walked into a room only to forget why you entered, accidentally called your boss 鈥渕um鈥� or burst out laughing at bad news? Here's what's really going on
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Sex and aggression linked in male mouse brains but not in female
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Blind people repurpose the brain’s visual areas for language
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Environment
Third-hand smoke in furniture and clothes damages mouse organs
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AI spots Alzheimer鈥檚 brain changes years before symptoms emerge
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Five ways technology can read your mind 鈥� and what it鈥檚 good for
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I found a way to communicate with people trapped in their bodies
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Lost in meditation: Two books argue over mindfulness
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Life
Rat brains seen replaying scary memories as they sleep
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Mind
Even a mask won’t hide you from the latest face recognition tech
A machine learning algorithm has been taught to see through basic disguises, and could identify protesters and criminals hiding their faces 鈥� and could render camouflage makeup obsolete
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Need a creativity boost? Try listening to happy background music
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Don’t quit now: Why you have more willpower than you think
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How menopause and Alzheimer鈥檚 change the brain in similar ways
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We’ve seen how our brains file away memories for the first time
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