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Jan 21 · 6 min read · Imagine half your brain perpetually dreaming while you're wide awake, going about your day, fully conscious and aware. Sounds like a thought experiment from a philosophy seminar, but it's exactly what researchers discovered actually happens after hem...
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Jan 21 · 5 min read · Here's a frustrating fact about biology: a zebrafish can sever its spinal cord and regrow it, good as new. You, a human, cannot. Your spinal cord injury is permanent. What's the zebrafish got that you don't? According to a study in Cell Reports, a bi...
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Jan 21 · 5 min read · Your adult brain is constantly making new neurons. Not everywhere, but in specific regions, fresh nerve cells are being born, and they have a problem: they're not born where they need to be. These newborn neurons have to pack their bags and migrate t...
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Jan 21 · 4 min read · You know what astronomers and neuroscientists have in common? They're both trying to look at things through stuff that distorts their view. For astronomers, it's the atmosphere making stars twinkle. For neuroscientists, it's thick tissue turning thei...
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Jan 21 · 4 min read · When you grow neurons in a dish, they do what neurons do: they reach out, make connections, and form networks. The problem? They form whatever network they feel like. You wanted to study a specific circuit architecture? Too bad, your neurons have oth...
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