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- Psychology
Babies’ flexible squeals may enable them to talk later
Language evolution might have fed off infants’ ability to use certain sounds to express various emotions.
- Life
Scientists race to understand deadly new virus
Emerging virus causes severe illness, but doesn’t spread as quickly as SARS.
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- Neuroscience
Caffeine shakes up growing mouse brains
When pregnant mice consumed caffeine, their offspring had altered neurons and faulty memory.
- Health & Medicine
Immune cells chow down on living brain
Microglia prune developing rat and monkey brains by eating neural stem cells.
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- Health & Medicine
Low-cal longevity questioned
Limited food intake in rhesus monkeys fails to extend the animals’ survival, in a departure from earlier reports.
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- Health & Medicine
Rare neurons found in monkeys’ brains
Cells linked to empathy and consciousness in primates may offer clues to human self-awareness.
- Neuroscience
Highlights from Neuroscience 2012
A collection of reports from the Society for Neuroscience annual meeting, New Orleans.
- Life
A flash of light implants false memories in mice
Researchers alter rodents' recollections by exciting just a few neurons.
