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Feelings of loneliness prompt changes in the brain that further isolate people from social contact.

The quantum energy teleportation protocol was proposed in 2008 and largely ignored. Now two independent experiments have shown that it works.

The neocortex of our brain is the seat of our intellect. New data suggests that mammals created it with new types of cells that they developed only after their evolutionary split from reptiles.

A wave of research improves reinforcement learning algorithms by pre-training them as if they were human.

Theory has it that “Population III” stars brought light to the cosmos. The James Webb Space Telescope may have just glimpsed them.

Depression has often been blamed on low levels of serotonin in the brain. That answer is insufficient, but alternatives are coming into view and changing our understanding of the disease.

Queen ants live far longer than genetically identical workers. Researchers are learning what their longevity secrets could mean for aging in other species.

The neural representations of a perceived image and the memory of it are almost the same. New work shows how and why they are different.

If plaques of amyloid protein in the brain aren’t the root cause of Alzheimer’s disease, what is?