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A bill that would require students in health classes across New Hampshire to watch certain fetal development videos is moving ...

A recent study revealed that the average human brain may contain the equivalent of a whopping five plastic bottle caps' worth of microplastics. The New York Times took a deeper dive into the topic on ...

In a massive scientific effort, hundreds of researchers have helped to map the connections between hundreds of thousands of neurons in the mouse brain and then overlayed their firing patterns in ...

A map of part of a mouse brain, which is expected to be generalisable to people, could help scientists understand behaviours, ...

Scientists have recreated in a laboratory the sensory pathway that transmits feelings of pain to the human brain, in a breakthrough that could lead to better treatments. A team at Stanford ...

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A team of more than 100 scientists recorded the cellular activity and mapped the structure in a cubic millimeter of a mouse’s brain.Credit... Supported by By Carl Zimmer The human brain is so ...

an achievement that could offer insight into how the human brain works. They worked out the cerebral architecture in a tissue sample the size of a grain of sand bearing more than 200,000 cells ...

"We used a newer technique called lesion network mapping, which relies on a large-scale wiring diagram of the human brain known as the human connectome. This allows us to link different brain ...

Mapping a tiny piece of a mouse’s brain — barely a cubic millimeter of its cerebral cortex — has opened a never-before-explored path toward understanding the human mind. An international consortium ...