Elderly people are worse at spotting untrustworthy faces, possibly due to decreased activity in the brain region associated with such perceptions.
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Lab inspection reports and internal documents reveal incidents involving the mistreatment of research animals at the University of California, San Francisco.
A Michigan University clinical researcher allegedly supplied a fund manager with information about drug trial results that the fund used to rake in more than $270 million.
Neighboring neurons in an insect’s antennae can block each other without sharing any synaptic connections.
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