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Your Gut Has a Mind of Its Own. Here's What That Actually Means
That 'gut feeling' is more real than you think. Scientists have discovered your gut and brain are in constant conversation, and it affects everything.
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The brain has started to publish
AI can now reconstruct what you are hearing, watching, or imagining from a brain scan. Not perfectly. Not without cooperation. But well enough to change neuroscience.
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Two ages, one body: the case for thinking in brain years
Calendar age tells you how long you have been alive. Brain age tells you something different — and often more useful.
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Why the brain consumes 20% of your energy
A look at the metabolic cost of cognition and why the human brain is so expensive to run.
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86 billion reasons to stay curious
A short meditation on the scale of the human brain, and what we still do not understand about it.
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The default mode network — what your brain is really doing when you zone out.
Daydreaming feels like doing nothing, but your brain is actually running one of its most powerful systems. Scientists call it the default mode network.
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Loneliness Is Not Just Painful. It Is Physically Damaging Your Brain.
A landmark study found that lacking social connection carries the same health risk as smoking 15 cigarettes a day. Here's what loneliness actually does to the brain.
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Why Bad Habits Are So Hard to Break (And Good Ones So Hard to Form)
It's not a lack of willpower. Your brain is literally wired to keep doing what it has always done. Here's what's actually going on inside your head.
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Your Brain Washes Itself While You Sleep. Here's Why That Matters.
Every night, your brain runs a biological cleaning cycle that flushes out toxic waste. Miss enough sleep and that waste starts to build up in ways that can last a lifetime.
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One Night of Sleep Can Reveal Your Risk of 130 Diseases. Here's How.
Stanford researchers built an AI that reads a single night of sleep data and predicts your risk of diseases years before any symptoms show up.
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