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06/29/2018
New Brain Cells Increase Resilience to Stress

The study, in mice, shows that the newly formed neurons dampen the effects of stress on the hippocampus.

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06/29/2018
‘Music of Speech’ Linked to Brain Area Unique to Humans

Understanding vocal pitch could give realistic synthetic voices to those unable to speak.

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06/29/2018
Weighing the Planet's Biological Matter

Though only one nine  thousandth  of the planet's biomass, humans have an outsized impact on Earth.

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06/28/2018
Collaboration Yields Discovery of 12-Sided Silica Cages

Nano cages could have applications in mesoscale material assembly, as well as medical diagnosis and therapeutics.

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06/28/2018
‘Elegant’ Design Could Lead to More Powerful, Safer Lithium Metal Battery

“Hairy” nanoparticles key to a more powerful and safer lithium battery

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06/21/2018
Scientists Solve the Case of the Missing Subplate, With Wide Implications for Brain Science

A new paper demonstrates that subplate neurons survive, and in fact become part of the adult cerebral cortex​

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06/21/2018
Nearly 80 Exoplanet Candidates Identified in Record Time

Search considered successful “dress rehearsal” for exoplanet hunter TESS​

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06/20/2018
Drowsy Worms Offer New Insights into the Neuroscience of Sleep

Rockefeller scientists shed new light on the transitions between a wakeful, active state and the stillness of sleep.

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06/18/2018
A Sprinkle of Platinum Nanoparticles Onto Graphene Makes Brain Probes More Sensitive

Graphene electrodes could enable higher quality imaging of brain cell activity​

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06/14/2018
Delft Scientists Make First ‘On Demand’ Entanglement Link

Researchers have succeeded in generating quantum entanglement between two quantum chips faster than the entanglement is lost.​

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