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The devastating impact of life in Romanian orphanages—described in the April issue of Scientific American—parallels other research on the importance of caregiving for the youngest children
A brain prosthesis gives the rodents a sixth sense—an ability to "see" in the infrared
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A new image collection of Albert Einstein's brain may provide insight into the physicist's profound ability to visualize space and time
Genetic engineering enables individual brain cells of research animals to ignite in brilliant color to trace the elaborate connections of a nervous system
An Emory University psychologist recounts why "fearless dominance," a personality trait used to screen for psychopaths, may be a quality to consider in our next chief executive
The retina at the back of the eye inspires the engineering of a new technology that extends the limits of photography
A multinational team has made progress in developing an exoskeleton—now being tested in monkeys—that might be used one day by the handicapped to walk again
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