The future of large-scale experiments and their challenges in the digital era
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Hidden “immune organ” in the skull may help fight brain cancer
Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified previously unknown lymph node-like immune structur...
Scientists recreated what mice saw from brain activity alone
Scientists have reconstructed short videos using only brain activity recorded from mice, effectively allowing researchers to recreate w...
Loneliness and desire for thinness explain sex differences in adolescent internalizing problems
Salk, R. H., Hyde, J. S. & Abramson, L. Y. Gender differences in depression in representative national samples: meta-ana...
Scientists discover a major brain shift between ages 50 and 75
Researchers have found that the human brain begins undergoing broad changes in the way its genome is regulated starting in midlife. The...
Complexity is a unified cognitive kind
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Smelling chocolate helped men complete more reps without feeling more tired
A tough leg day may have an unexpectedly simple boost: the smell of chocolate. According to a new study published in Frontiers in Physi...
Building health-literate artificial intelligence | Nature Human Behaviour
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Large estimated size of the Australian Indigenous population before its extensive decline following colonial invasion
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Defining collectivism as duties in relationships rather than generalized warmth improves predictive validity in 100 cultures
Surveying psychologists’ intuitionsA sceptic might argue that these are outdated misunderstandings. After all, t...