Paper breakdown.
Each of these takes a single real study and walks through what the researchers did, what they found, and what it actually means.
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What happens when you put prism glasses on a barn owl?
A young owl in goggles that shift its whole world sideways, and the map of sound in its brain quietly sliding over to match. One of the clearest demonstrations that experience wires the brain.
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Do the new Alzheimer's drugs actually work?
A landmark 2023 trial cleared amyloid plaque from people's brains with donanemab and slowed their decline. Here's what that really bought, and what it cost.
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Scientists found an aggression switch in the mouse brain.
A 2011 study switched on a pinhead of neurons in the mouse hypothalamus and a calm male attacked almost anything. Here's how aggression got a physical address in the brain.
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