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A new study from the University of Colorado Boulder suggests your baby will show signs of intelligence just as early as new ...

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A study in the journal Science presents compelling new evidence that neurons in the brain's memory centre, the hippocampus, ...

For more than six decades, neuroscientists have wrestled with a fundamental question about the human brain: Do adults ...

Scientists in Sweden led the study, published Thursday in Science. They found abundant signs of neural stem cells growing in ...

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The team suspects that neurogenesis happens in other parts of the adult brain, too. In mice, new neurons are regularly made ...