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Imagine trying to wake up from a deep sleep, and you feel someone softly tickling your arm while simultaneously tapping on your forehead. Surprisingly, this peculiar combination of stimuli has been found to improve the level of consciousness in patients with prolonged disorders of consciousness (pDOC) such as traumatic brain injury. In a recent study, […]
Just like our bodies have limits to the amount of food we can consume, our brains also have limitations on how much information they can process. The problem is that our brains use up a lot of energy to process information, so there’s only so much it can handle at a time. Imagine trying to […]
Throughout history, humans and animals have shared a special connection. This bond, known as domestication, has brought about a radical transformation in the natural world. It’s as if we took the wild, untamable forces of nature and molded them into our own image. The extensive debate surrounding domestication has led scientists to question whether there […]
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