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Your memory isn't just an archive of the past—it's a sophisticated time machine that helps you navigate the future. Explore the neuroscience behind mental time travel and its profound impact on human cognition.
A brisk tour of placebos, nocebos, and the ritual of care, why expectations matter, where open-label placebos help, and what the ethics say.
Crows do far more than caw. Their calls carry identity, recruit allies, warn of threats, and show structure in sequences. Close relatives even gesture. Learn what we know, what to watch for, and how to build your own ear in the field.
Your nose is a direct line to the brain. Here’s how odor molecules become memories, why some theories invoke quantum physics, and what loss of smell really means.
How a 19th-century ‘dog engine’ used an inclined-plane treadmill to spin churns and centrifuges—and why today it’s a historical curiosity that sparks animal-welfare questions.
Born in 1783 near Kolkata, the ‘Two-Headed Boy of Bengal’—a case of craniopagus parasiticus—lived about two years before a cobra bite ended his life, leaving behind one of medical history’s most haunting reports.
A dying-bed scale, six patients, and a headline number: how the legend of a 21-gram soul took shape—and why it doesn’t stand up to scrutiny.