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About 10.6 percent of people are left-handed, but what about animals? A new study looked at data from 172 animal species to ...

Researchers have a new hypothesis for how brain cells called astrocytes might contribute to memory storage in the brain. Their model, known as dense associative memory, would help explain the brain's ...