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Tom Werner/Getty Images Your Brain May Not Experience Free Will the Way You Think
Your brain may be less of a rogue cowboy and more of a quiet office worker processing paperwork until the stamp comes down.
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Francesco Carta Fotografo/Getty Images Meditating Regularly Does Something Strange to the Structure of Your Brain
Meditation can calm your brain, while making it physically bigger, chunkier, meatier—those are good things, by the way.
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Photo: Carol Yepes / Getty Images Did Scientists Crack the Code on Staying Sharp Until You Die?
What if we could all be superagers?
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Photo: Dragon Claws / Getty Images Alcohol Makes Your Brain Forget How to Communicate With Itself
Shame the study doesn’t capture how alcohol affects the brain during active tasks like streaking or getting into a barroom brawl.
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MirageC/Getty Images Is the Earth’s ‘Heartbeat’ Giving You Brain Fog?
The internet loves a creepy-sounding explanation for basic human misery. This week’s version is “Earth’s heartbeat.”
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OsakaWayne Studios/Getty Images Your Brain Doesn’t Stop Developing at 25, It Keeps Changing Until This Age
It’s one of those commonly accepted “facts” that isn’t really a fact at all.
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Imaginima/Getty Images Your Brain Uses Less Energy When You’re Looking at Something Beautiful, Study Finds
The brain uses more energy than any other organ in the body, and visual processing alone accounts for nearly half of our energy reserves.
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Mr. Suphachai Praserdumrongchai/Getty Images 8 Unhinged Things Your Brain Does to ‘Protect’ You
Here are 8 unhinged things your brain does to “protect” you, whether you asked for it or not.
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