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Can AI Tell Which Odour We Are Smelling?
Can picking up a book really improve your brain?
Graphene technology provides real-time insight into brain vulnerability after stroke
Are right-brained people really more creative? Here’s what the science really tells us
Single psilocybin dose improves social behaviour in OCD mouse model
Brain stimulation could reshape how you learn new skills
New insights into how the brain responds after a severed nerve is repaired could boost recovery
Cash transfers to mothers with low income may slow biological aging in children
Childhood sleep apnoea: when snoring is more than a noisy night
Five ways the human body can sync up with other people
Growing more with less earns new seed technology top Curtinnovation Award
NeurotechEU Hackathon Wearable Neurotechnology: fNIRS and EEG
New research shows how psychedelics reorganise the patterns in your brain
Distinct Neurons Drive Mice’s Social Sounds And Squeaks
When expressive humanoid robots are awkward, people become wary – new brain study
Inflammation May Drive Rare Epileptic Syndrome
Dreams Drain Energy: REM Sleep Paradox
Detecting the body’s magnetic fields with a low-power Ramsey-based magnetometer
Reassuring touch kept the peace six million years before humans evolved – new research
Demystifying Molecular Mechanisms Of General Anesthesia
How did COVID masked faces impact NICU babies’ facial perception?
Telepathic device set to remove communication barrier for people with impaired speech
Free will: does refusing to believe in it make you a ‘bad’ person? Research is challenging this old idea
Curtinnovation finalists breaking new ground in health, AI, safety and more
Women Sleep Better Than Men – But Experience Opposite
Printed Manga May Give Brain Storytelling Advantage
Alzheimer’s-linked protein found to shape long-term memories
Study reveals brain changes linked to alcohol addiction recovery
Quantum sensors use atoms, electrons and light as ultra-steady rulers – detecting faint motion, magnetism and gravity for navigation, medicine and science
Short exposures to common air pollutants shown to have distinct impacts on lung function and brain activity
Long-term study sheds new light on autism and ADHD in childhood
Does 432Hz tuning improve your wellbeing? A music psychologist unpacks the evidence
AI Matches Human Teachers: HKUST Study Finds a Brief Pre-Lecture Chat Boosts Students’ Brain Synchrony and Learning Outcomes
?Cyclists feel safer than they really are on busy streets, study finds
University of Canterbury study challenges reading strategies for autistic children
How scientists changed their view of insomnia
Scientists On Hunt For High-stress Brainwaves
HKUST Team Unveils Innovative Technology for Precise Reading and Control of Brain Circuits to Advance Brain Disease Research
How does imagination really work in the brain? New theory upends what we knew
Chaos In Heart And Brain
6 ways your smartwatch is lying to you, according to science
Are we ever truly free to make decisions? New study tracks a universal process in the brain
Your brain for sale? The new frontier of neural data
How to build a digital ‘twin’ of the human brain – what existing models overlook
Agro-Healing Programs Show Positive Effects on Mental Health and Well-Being Across Age Groups
How the menstrual cycle can make or break an athlete’s performance
How psychedelics push your brain to dream while awake – new study
When your eyelids become a cinema screen: what strobing light reveals about the brain