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How Blind Soccer Players Keep Their Head in the Game
Researchers have studied the way blind players and sighted non-athletes tracked an incoming noise-making ball.
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Psychological Flexibility Proves Key To a Happy Relationship
"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way," Leo Tolstoy wrote famously in 1878 in the opening lines of Anna Karenina. Turns out the Russian author was onto something.
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Future Hearing Aids Could Read Brainwaves To Listen To Specific Speakers
Researchers have now addressed that issue with a technique that uses brainwaves to determine within one second whom you're listening to.
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Copper Isotopes Could Act As Long-Lasting Tools for Alzheimer's Imaging
A mouse model of Alzheimer's disease offers new evidence that copper isotopes can be used to detect the amyloid-beta protein deposits that form in the brains of people with Alzheimer's.
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Why Our Vision Is More Than the Sum of Its Parts
A new study proposes a new way of modelling vision that could fundamentally changes how computers approach efforts to replicate human vision.
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Pregnancy Stress May Influence Baby's Brain Development
Infants' brains may be shaped by levels of stress their mother experiences during pregnancy, a study has revealed.
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Researchers Determine the Structure of Glass-Shaping Protein in Sponges
A research team have determined the 3D structure of the protein silicatein which forms the crystalline fibers in glass sponges.
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AI Helps Scientists Understand Brain Activity Behind Thoughts
A team has developed artificial intelligence (AI) models that help them better understand the brain computations that underlie thoughts. This is new, because until now there has been no method to measure thoughts.
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Half the Population Consider "Superfoods" Part of a Healthy Diet
Chia seeds, goji berries or quinoa - 48% of the population see so-called "superfoods" as part of a health-conscious diet. This was shown in a recent study, despite no legal regulation of what constitutes a "superfood" and a general lack of evaluation of potential health risks.
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Older Adults Are More Confident in Their Memory, Even When It's Wrong
Traditionally, psychologists believed that the more ingrained a memory of something was, the more difficult it would be to update your understanding of that thing, should it change. New research finds, however, the opposite is true.
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