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2011 World Science Festival: A look back
The Scientist | Jun 10, 2011 | 5 min read
The Scientist covered some of the events that made this year's festival memorable.
The Breakthrough Prize ?Trophy
2024 Breakthrough Prizes in Life Sciences
Danielle Gerhard, PhD | Sep 14, 2023 | 10 min read
This year’s Breakthrough Prizes honor advances in CAR T cancer therapies, cystic fibrosis, and Parkinson’s disease.
Identity Crisis, 1906
Catherine Offord | Mar 1, 2021 | 4 min read
A famous account of multiple personality disorder in the early 20th century foreshadowed a century of controversial diagnoses and debate among psychiatrists.
Neurons (green) fire differently depending on whether the astrocytes (red) they are grown with are cultivated from people with or without fragile X.
Astrocytes Fuel Erratic Firing in Fragile X Neurons
Lauren Schenkman, Spectrum | May 30, 2023 | 4 min read
This new understanding could one day lead to targeted treatments. 
Savant in the Limelight, 1988–2009
Sukanya Charuchandra | May 1, 2020 | 3 min read
Kim Peek, the inspiration for the title character in Rain Man, brought public attention to savant syndrome.
Black in X Addresses Long-Standing Inequity in STEM
Lisa Winter | Nov 16, 2020 | 7 min read
In a year of racial tumult, Black scientists are uniting for visibility and action. 
Where Do Our Memories Live?
Matthew Cobb | May 1, 2020 | 3 min read
A new book explores research through the ages that has tried to map the intricacies of the human brain, including pinpointing the seat of memory.
Book Excerpt from Behave
Robert Sapolsky | May 31, 2017 | 5 min read
In the book’s introduction, author and neuroendocrinologist Robert Sapolsky explains his fascination with the biology of violence and other dark parts of human behavior.
Capsule Reviews
Bob Grant | May 1, 2014 | 3 min read
Madness and Memory, Promoting the Planck Club, The Carnivore Way, and The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons
Monkeys “Read” Writing
Megan Scudellari | Apr 12, 2012 | 3 min read
Baboons are able to distinguish printed English words from nonsense sequences of letters—the first step in the reading process.

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