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Scientists have found the first compelling evidence that cognitive training can boost levels of a brain chemical that typically declines as people age. The results of this 10-week study back earlier ...

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In findings that raise a variety of questions about how our brains work, and even about the nature of consciousness, UC Santa Barbara researchers and collaborators report that only a small section of ...

Electrons start behaving strangely when they are squeezed into extremely flat sheets such as graphene, which is just one atom thick. This makes graphene a promising material for generating robust ...

Decades after building Infosys into an IT bellwether, the co-founder is now investing crores into mapping the human brain and ...

Since the publication of the Human Genome Project, researchers have expanded the field of genomics to probe deeper into the underpinnings of human biology and disease, including studies of the body’s ...

On Thursday, March 12, Smith College President Sarah Willie-LeBreton welcomed to campus Dr. Frances Jensen ’78—renowned neuroscientist and best-selling author of The Teenage Brain—for a conversation ...

If we travelled back 16,500 years to visit North America during the Ice Age, research suggests we would see our ancestors making use of psychedelic mushrooms. From cacti in ancient Mexico to ergot ...