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Sweets on the brain

Sugar-free sweeteners fool the body’s internal computer

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Cool Jobs: Scents of science

Better understanding of the sense of smell inspires research into everything from whales to electronic ‘noses’

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Fooling the mind’s eye

Brain scientists find they have much to learn from magicians and their tricks

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Learning in your sleep

Sleeping people can be taught to make connections between sounds and smells

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Risk-taking linked to Ritalin

People who inappropriately take the prescription drug to become more alert may also become more reckless

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The teenage brain

Adolescence triggers brain — and behavioral — changes that few kids or adults understand

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Learning language before birth

Scientists find that newborns can recognize vowel sounds similar to those spoken by their parents

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Baby brain, adult disease

Scientists find signs of Alzheimer’s disease in the brains of infants

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Concussion: More than ‘getting your bell rung’

This common brain injury can cause serious — and lasting — damage

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Brain to brain

Rats brains signaled each other through computers

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The stuff of dreams

Computer program decodes dreams, finds similar brain activity patterns for objects seen while asleep or awake

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Perfect pacifier

In people and mice, carrying a baby calms it

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A mind for math

A part of the brain associated with making memories may also predict success in learning math

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Explainer: Our bodies’ internal clocks

Biological clocks determine hunger, sleepiness and other daily rhythms

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Headers and memory loss

Soccer players who frequently use their heads score worse on memory tests

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Explainer: What is jet lag?

Researchers don’t fully understand how the body’s internal clocks coordinate. But they do know your body will notice when its circadian rhythms are mismatched to the time zone they’re in. “There are a...

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Respecting the body’s clocks

Daily rhythms affect everything from the time we wake to how well we perform in sports

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Full moon shortchanges sleep

Lab experiments show people’s sleep suffers for a day or so every month

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Fake memories

A flash of light in the brain plants false memories

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Teen fighting may harm IQ

Blows to the head may explain these effects on the brain

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