Health
The HIV virus can lurk in the human brain, waiting to spread
A recent study in mice and human tissue found that the HIV virus could lurk in the brain even when patients were being treated with antiviral therapy.
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What does our brain need to remember?
What happens in the hippocamp even before people try to form memories can affect whether they remember it or not.
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The human brain turns into glass when a volcano erupts near Naples
Scientists discovered fragmented glass fragments in the human skull caused by heat of 520 degrees Celsius in a volcanic disaster in Europe in AD79.
Health
The most detailed brain nerve map has just been published
Scientists from Google and the FlyEM research team at the Janelia Institute have published the most detailed animal brain neural network map ever.
Archeology
The mystery of the ancient human brain remained intact for 2,600 years without decay
Thousands of years ago in the Heslington area of England, a man's body began to decompose. Meat and offal became muddy, hair turned to dust, but bones remained and mor…
New technology
The device helps Facebook read users' brains
Facebook has just announced the acquisition of CTRL-Labs, a startup that develops communication devices between the brain and a computer. This could be an important step…
Health
Detect ominous effects of air pollution on the brain
New research from the UK suggests that breathing in polluted air with high levels of PM10 fine dust can cause students to suddenly get bad grades.
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15 incredible facts about the brain
Have you ever heard that the total length of the human brain's axons is enough to wrap around four Earths, or if the brain is a hard drive, it has the capacity of four t…
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The new finding shows that the human brain can create 11-dimensional space
With about 86 billion neurons, the human brain is the most complex structure in nature that we still don't fully understand.
Archeology
Monkey skull fossils 20 million years ago have the potential to reveal the evolution of the human brain
The skull fossils of a prehistoric primates living in the Andes mountains 20 million years ago help scientists 'uncover the mystery of' the evolution of the human brain
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Why do we sometimes forget what I was just about to say?
Forget something or forget to say it - everyone has encountered such a problem.
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Elon Musk invested hundreds of millions of dollars to 'chip' the chip into the human brain
Neuralink company invested by billionaire Elon Musk wants to bring data collection devices into the human brain with a simple surgery.
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This 'rice-powered machine' is a thousand times better than the most professional camera
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Animal world
The US issued a warning about parasitic worms that could get into the human brain
The Hawaii Health Authority (USA) has just issued a warning to visitors about parasites that can be cut and burrowed into the human brain, causing brain inflammation and…
