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Female mammals typically carry two X chromosomes — one from each parent — and a new study suggests that the maternal X is ...

Psychology professor Dima Amso studies early childhood, and supports NGOs by girding them with state-of-the-art research.

The Spiking Neural Processor T1 is an AI chip that's modeled on the way the brain detects patterns and could extend the ...

New insights into predictive processing reveal how our prior experiences with brands change what we taste, feel, and believe.

Despite all the attention on technologies that reduce the hands-on role of humans at work—such as self-driving vehicles, robot workers, artificial intelligence and so on—researchers in the field of ...

Study explains long-standing question of why Huntington’s disease symptoms typically do not appear until midlife even though ...

Specific protein receptors in the brain play a vital role in how neurons slow down or stop firing, making them targets for ...