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Parkinson’s disease or traumatic brain injury may be to blame, experts say

Bats use hippocampus neurons to navigate social environments, enabling them to recognise and fly towards specific ‘friends’. Place neurons encode info about location, presence/absence of other bats, and even identity of the bat they’re flying towards. This helps bats establish resting spots and follow similar trajectories.

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He helped develop the first robotic prosthetic arm that gave realistic touch feedback, enabling a man, paralyzed from the chest down, to distinguish between touches on individual fingers and the palm of a robotic hand.

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Children with Cancer UK explains the symptoms of the three most common ones in children. By Lisa Salmon.

Scientists used high-frequency random noise stimulation, which sends a mild electrical current to the brain through two electrodes.

From today's long decision in Free Speech Coalition, Inc. v. Colmenero, by Judge David Alan Ezra (W.D. Tex.) (see here for excerpts from the part of the decision that strikes down the separate age-verification requirement): In addition to the age verification, H.B. 1181 requires adult content sites to post a…

Parkinson’s disease or traumatic brain injury may be to blame, experts say