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An international research team involving the German Primate Center—Leibniz Institute for Primate Research (DPZ), Hannover ...

An international team led by the University of Michigan has introduced new methods that reveal which regions of the brain were active throughout the day with single-cell resolution.

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Researchers tracked brain activity across 24 hours, showing how shifting neural control centers drive fatigue and how sleep ...

Backed by Andreessen Horowitz and Jeff Bezos, Unconventional AI wants to ditch GPUs for biologically inspired hardware that ...

Curiosity-driven experiments in a basement eventually sparked a worldwide rethink of how stress, addiction, and life experiences shape the brain.

Scientists mapped brain activity across the day and found the same neurons create completely different networks depending on ...

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An international team led by the University of Michigan has introduced new methods that reveal which regions of the brain ...