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Why we get brain freeze: What happens inside your head after a cold bite
In this week's The Daily Why, we explain why a harmless summer treat can trigger one of the strangest sensations in the human ...
ScienceAlert on MSN
A Strange Pattern Could Explain The Mysterious Origins of Brain Cancer
Confocal microscope image of a fruit fly brain. (Louise Cheng) Not every region of your brain is equally susceptible to cancer. Over many decades of treating brain cancer, doctors have noticed ...
Researchers have a new hypothesis for how brain cells called astrocytes might contribute to memory storage in the brain. Their model, known as dense associative memory, would help explain the brain's ...
Recent work has revealed some of the many crucial functions of astrocytes, brain cells that were once thought to play primarily supportive roles for neurons. Astrocytes do handle debris around neurons ...
Morning Overview on MSN
Scientists just watched the brain flush out its own waste during deep sleep — pulsing waves of fluid that may explain why lost sleep wrecks your memory
You wake up after a terrible night of sleep, and the fog is immediate: names slip away, your train of thought derails ...
Those differences in wiring help explain why some people can switch tasks or recover from distractions more efficiently than others. If your white matter tracts strongly link fast sensory regions with ...
The physical differences between men and women are all too obvious, but the biological divide goes right down to the cellular level in the brain, according to a new study published in the journal ...
Laughter is the best medicine, according to one old adage. Now, new research suggests it boosts child learning and ...
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