Thousands of fireflies in the eastern US and Southeast Asia exhibit breathtaking synchronized flashing, a phenomenon now ...

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A high-stakes dispute forcing copyright law to confront a long-standing problem: how to define ‘originality’ for the protection of musical works.

An EEG (electroencephalogram) is a painless test that uses small sensors placed on the scalp to measure the brain's ...

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In a study published February 5th in PLOS Biology, researchers played piano sonatas by J.S. Bach to sleeping newborns (some ...

For more than a century, psychologists thought that the infant experience was, as the psychologist and philosopher William James famously put it, a “blooming, buzzing confusion.” But new research ...

A new study from the American Academy of Neurology found that an irregular circadian rhythm could be linked to an increased risk for dementia. The circadian rhythm is the body’s internal clock, ...

Your daily rhythm may matter more for brain health than previously thought. Older adults with weaker, more disrupted activity patterns were far more likely to develop dementia than those with steady ...

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Individuals who have mastered a complex field and then devote themselves to helping others master it, too, are incredibly remarkable. They’re also magnetic, especially when they do it with joy and ...

In Mendelian inheritance patterns, you receive one version of a gene, called an allele, from each parent. These alleles can be dominant or recessive. Non-Mendelian genetics don’t completely follow ...