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Having a word “on the tip of the tongue” has happened to all of us. Behind this everyday phenomenon lie complex brain mechanisms.

In the second world war, the physician Henry Beecher observed that some of his soldier patients, despite being injured on the battlefield, required no strong painkillers to manage their pain. In some ...

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Just like ChatGPT and other generative language models train on human texts to create grammatically correct sentences, a new modeling method trains on recordings of birds to create accurate birdsongs.

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New research suggests that fluoxetine, commonly used as an antidepressant, may also help protect against infections and sepsis.

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Addiction hijacks the brain’s neural pathways. Scientists are challenging the ... ago after taking prescription pain pills for a work injury. Last year she was living in a homeless encampment ...