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Switching on the brain: human evolution
The heat was unbearable. The land was barren. Early homo sapiens dragged his weary feet across the dusty African desert. It was around this time, ninety thousand years ago, that our ancestors experienced a change in fortune. Read the rest of this entry »
Building new brains at King’s
Replacing damaged brain tissue with new neurons may have been science fiction just a decade ago. However, UK scientists have done just that by treating brain-damaged rats with neural stem cells. Read the rest of this entry »
Faces scanned like baked bean tins
New research suggests that humans read faces in horizontal stripes, like a barcode. Read the rest of this entry »










