He emphasised that the creation of the Voltaire Library and Museum will transform the site into a global hub for French culture in Qatar, benefiting students, researchers, and the broader public.

When fMRI machines came online in the 1990s, researchers did use them to look at infant brains, but these scans were typically conducted when babies were sleeping, Yates said. This means they ...

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Recent MRI research suggests our brains can turn to an unexpected source of fuel in times of need, like running a 26.2-mile race. By Ed Cara Published March 26, 2025 | Comments (15) ...

Budgie brains contain a map of vocal sounds, which is similar to that found in the human brain and has not been seen in any other bird.

And so people have thought historically this is a really big hallmark of our species. That makes us special. And so I was like, “Well, I wonder if maybe since dogs live in the human environment, if ...

THE RELIGION ENTRY IN Voltaire’s Dictionary might be interpreted as championing the use of reason. The external procedures Voltaire asks Christ about submit to the test of reason. This kind of test is ...

Your brain is 99.5% brain tissue — but the rest? Plastic. That’s the unsettling takeaway from a new study co-lead by Matthew Campen, who found microplastics in human brains at far higher ...

Citations A. J. Nihart et al. Bioaccumulation of microplastics in decedent human brains. Nature Medicine. Published online February 3, 2025. doi: 10.1038/s41591-024-03453-1.

A colorized computed tomography (CT) scan of the brain revealing blood vessels in the brain. A new study finds microplastics accumulate at higher levels in human brains than in the liver and ...

As plastic breaks down over time, it degrades into smaller and smaller bits ‒ eventually small enough to slip inside the human body. Most of the plastics the scientists found in brain, kidney ...

Do you have a favourite foreign city which you’ve always dreamed of living in? For me, that city is Zurich, but I used to ...