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Our brains know we’ll change our minds before we do. Understanding how might help us learn to make better decisions.

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The Emerging Investigator Series by the journal Materials Horizons features outstanding work by young researchers in the ...

Peering into the human brain has never been easy. For decades, neuroscientists have relied on heavy, expensive machines to measure blood flow and oxygen levels that reveal how the brain works.

For decades, large stretches of human DNA were dismissed as "junk" and considered to serve no real purpose. In a new study published in Cell Genomics, researchers at Lund University in Sweden show ...