What Do You Know About Science?
Unleash the geek, and let us know how familiar you are with a variety of scientific concepts.
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Why Do Screams Make You Shudder?
Human screams have a unique audio quality not found in other types of speech.
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Forget-Me-Not: How Prions Maintain Memory
Nobel Laureate Eric Kandel discusses the role of prions in maintaining long-term memories.
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These Brains Changed Neuroscience
In “The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons,” science writer Sam Kean explains how the field of neuroscience emerged from stories of brains gone awry.
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Can Marijuana Help or Hurt Adolescent Health?
A roundtable of scientists discuss ongoing research on the effects and potential applications of marijuana for adolescents in the United States.
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Meet Inside Out’s Emotion Coach
Psychology professor Dacher Keltner helped the filmmakers of the film “Inside Out” navigate the 11-year-old mind.
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‘Shrinks’ Tells Of Desperate Early Cures
In his book, psychiatrist Jeffrey Lieberman documents the profession’s early days—a time when malaria was considered an effective cure for mental illness.
From Fever Cure to Coma Therapy: Psychiatric Treatments Through Time
An excerpt from “Shrinks: The Untold Story of Psychiatry.”
Against the Grain: An Alternative View of Alzheimer’s
For decades, Duke neurology professor Allen Roses has doggedly pursued a theory that dysfunctional mitochondria in the brain cause late-onset Alzheimer’s disease, and that beta-amyloid is just part of the disease’s pathology.
Babies On The Brink
A series of rigorous (and adorable) experiments shatters the myth that babies learn to fear heights as they learn to crawl.