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Brain freeze isn’t actually your brain freezing
Women who sniffed their partner’s worn T-shirt felt calmer and recovered faster from a stressful test
A newborn’s brain already knows its mother’s language
The friends you made between 16 and 25 feel irreplaceable, but not because they were better people
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A neuroscientist put free soloist Alex Honnold in a brain scanner and showed him image after gruesome image
A smell can drag you back decades, and one likely reason is that, unlike your other senses, it travels almost…
When the smell of a grandmother’s kitchen suddenly brings back an afternoon from 60 years ago, it isn’t just…
On June 1, 1932, nearly every 11-year-old in Scotland sat the same intelligence test
John O'Keefe found cells in a rat's hippocampus in 1971 that fired whenever it was at one place in a room while…
We carry something like a GPS in the brain, and some people seem to have more of it working for them. It started with…
