Sharper images: How the brain filters out the noise
A multidisciplinary team of researchers at Georgia Tech has discovered how lateral inhibition helps our brains process visual ...
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Decoding the neural basis of affective empathy: How the brain feels others' pain
A research team has uncovered key insights into how the brain processes others' distress. Using miniature endoscopic calcium imaging, the researchers identified specific neural ensembles in the ...
Whether we imagine navigation or navigate in real life, our brainwaves look the same
Physical and imagined movement through real-world environments may use the same neural mechanism in the brain, suggests a ...
I toured the Getty Villa weeks after 17 employees fought flames from the Los Angeles fires. Here's how it became an anti-fire fortress.
The Getty Villa's construction, technology, and staff training helped it survive the Palisades fire. Here's what it takes to ...
‘Fate is screaming at us to do something’: How pilots are reacting to the slew of recent aviation incidents
As public confidence in aviation safety drops, the pressure is on pilots to reassure nervous passengers. But although pilots say flying is still safe, some have concerns about a system under pressure.
Snakes: Facts about one of the most iconic creatures in animal hiss-tory
Snakes are exclusively carnivorous, meaning that they only eat other animals — and in some cases, eggs. Their diets range ...
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The Immune System
What is the immune system? The immune system works to keep germs and other foreign substances out of the body and destroy any that get in. It's made up of a complicated network of cells and organs. It ...
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Genetics of the nervous system articles from across Nature Portfolio
Genetics of the nervous system refers to the study of genetics affecting the development, physiology and functions of the nervous system and diseases thereof. How alcohol-induced plasticity ...
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NASA supercomputer reveals strange spiral structure at the edge of our solar system
The mysterious Oort cloud is the source of many of our solar system's comets, but astronomers still have no idea what it looks like. Now, new simulations may have given them a first glimpse.
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Malta’s Megalithic Structures Among the Oldest and Most Mysterious
Malta is home to some of the oldest and arguably most mysterious megalithic structures known to man, older than the Pyramids and Stonehenge. Malta’s ancient temples date back to 3600 to 2500 BC. Some ...