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Maria is a graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania, where she studies how neurons and astrocytes influence each other in regulating degradative pathways. She is passionate about the ...

Thirteen years after the first Avatar movie came out in 2009, director James Cameron invites viewers to journey back to the faraway, lush exo-moon of Pandora with a sequel: Avatar: The Way of Water.

When a clinical trial holds the power to change who you are, do you get a say in what happens next? This question made headlines when a participant in an Australian study was forced to part with the ...

Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) flows through your central nervous system, serving multiple roles: it protects your brain, takes out the cellular trash, and even acts as a highway for immune cells. Although ...

With its chorus of uncovered coughs, snotty sneezes, and doctor’s office waiting rooms full of children wearing pajamas, flu season brings plenty of germy interactions to cringe away from. If you’ve ...

Do you know that feeling when you help someone without thinking—like holding a door open or offering a kind word, and it just feels surprisingly good? Even when there was nothing in it for you?

Your heartbeat isn’t just keeping you alive; it’s also talking to your brain and shaping how you experience pain. Recent research shows that the cardiovascular system and pain pathways are more ...

Articolo originale: How the Olfactory System Makes You Run Toward Pumpkin Spice Lattes, and Away From Rotting Flesh, Ayushe Sharma e Brandon Mitchell Tradotto da Rebecca Uzzi ~~~ Mentre cammini per… ...

As I sit watching a medical TV show with my sister, an imaging technologist, she critiques the accuracy of the procedures the characters are claiming to perform. “The x-rays in the background are even ...

Running his hands over a red armchair, Neo murmurs with hesitation, “This isn’t real.” Gazing at him intently, Morpheus responds, “What is real? How do you define real?” In the film The Matrix, the ...

Muchos se preguntan por qué las mismas regiones del cerebro a menudo están involucradas una y otra vez en tantas tareas y comportamientos. Por ejemplo, la corteza prefrontal está involucrada en tantas ...