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Our minds, our bodies and the ways we experience the world.
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Why Can Music Give You Goosebumps?
Music-induced chills connect tiny skin muscles, sympathetic arousal, anticipation, and the brain’s reward system.
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Your Skeleton Repairs Itself by Taking It Apart
Living bone is renewed by a coordinated sequence: one group of cells removes old tissue, another rebuilds it, and embedded cells help direct the work.
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Patients Helped an Epilepsy Monitor Learn Its Mistakes
In a 13-patient hospital study, feedback from people undergoing EEG monitoring helped a seizure detector reject many of its own false alarms.
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Why Can a Missing Limb Still Feel Present?
Phantom sensations reveal that the brain does not simply erase a body part when its signals stop arriving.
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Bath Wrinkles Begin Beneath the Skin
Water-wrinkled fingertips are produced by a nerve-controlled change in blood flow—not simply by skin soaking up water.
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Why Your Body Can Keep More Than One Time
A small meal-timing experiment reveals why your internal clocks do not all respond in the same way.
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Did Diving Help Shape the Body That Later Ran?
Imagine an early human looking for food at the water's edge. A September hypothesis asks whether repeated shallow diving helped shape abilities later useful for endurance running. The intriguing part is the proposed order of events.
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Stopping a Cavity Without Making It Disappear
A cavity can stop getting worse even though its damaged surface is still there. That distinction changes how to read a treatment result.
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A Neanderthal Inheritance With a Small Modern Effect
A dramatic ancestry story can hide an undramatic number. One inherited receptor variant is associated with about 270 grams more muscle on average.
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Helping Cells Read Past a Premature Stop Signal
Some disease-causing mutations interrupt a protein before it is finished. Researchers are exploring a way to help the cell keep reading.
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A Large Long COVID Trial Found No Antiviral Benefit
A plausible explanation for an illness does not automatically produce an effective treatment. RECOVER-VITAL has supplied an important test.
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A New Brain Atlas Looks Beneath the Diagnosis
Millions of cell nuclei offer a closer view of what brain disorders share—and where they differ.
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Can You Find Your Blind Spot?
Make a dot disappear without touching the screen.
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Does a Vivid Memory Have to Be True?
A memory can feel sharp even when its details have shifted.
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Your Memory Isn’t a Recording
Two people can disagree about the same moment—and both genuinely believe their version.
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You Don’t See the World Exactly as It Is
Your everyday view looks complete. A tiny experiment can reveal something missing.
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Living Longer—or Staying Younger?
A longer life and a longer healthy life are related ambitions. They are not the same measure.
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Why do we age in the first place?
A biological puzzle with more than one moving part.
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