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What Exactly Are Muscle Knots?

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Biomimicking the Brain Vasculature With a Microfluidic Chip With Ami Mehta

This Teach Me in 10 will explain how the human brain vasculature can be modeled using new, microfluidic organ-on-a-chip technology.
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How Your Sense of Smell Helps You Savor Flavor

Eating pizza with a stuffy nose just isn't as satisfying – and there's a reason for that.
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Why Does Salt Change the Taste of Everything?

If your coffee is too bitter, add a pinch of salt. If your salad isn’t sour enough, add a pinch of salt. If your beer is too bitter, add a pinch of salt. Salt has a seemingly magical ability to enhance good flavors and dampen bad ones.
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Mitochondria Are the Powerhouse of… Alzheimer’s?

Some researchers think mitochondria could be hiding the key to Alzheimer's disease. And we may have a new strategy to fight the threat that the global banana industry has been facing for decades.
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The Benefits of Daydreaming

Enter the mind of a bored teenager to discover what happens in the brain when we daydream and find out what purpose it serves.
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Everything You Know About Studying Is a Lie – Brain Type Test

Take the 3-minute brain-type quiz, and identify your ideal study style. Which club will you match?
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The Fungi That Turned Ants Into Zombies

Over millions of years, many fungi have become specialized for infecting insects and other arthropods, but this fungus can manipulate ants’ movements, forcing them to do something they’d never ordinarily do.
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The Problem Dogs Solved That We Couldn't

A dog's sense of smell is estimated to be 10,000 to 100,000 times better than our own, but how can they detect human disease?
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