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A Link Between Hearing Voices and Hearing Your Own Voice
An experiment with bone-conduction headphones suggests a way for neuroscientists to better understand some hallucinations. Source
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Why Apple Watches Keep Calling 911
911 dispatchers are buried under an avalanche of false, automated distress calls from skiers and other Apple device owners who are very much alive. Source
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Social Media Use Is Linked to Brain Changes in Teens, Research Finds
The effect of social media use on children is a fraught area of research, as parents and policymakers try to ascertain the results of a vast experiment already in full swing. Successive studies have added […]
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A Teen’s Journey Into the Internet’s Darkness and Back Again
Puberty hit C early — in the fourth grade — and hard: acne, breasts, attention, humiliation. C found refuge in the internet. Every night, often well past midnight, C lay in bed with an iPod […]
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How Scientists Are Reviving Cells in Dead Pigs’ Organs
Researchers who previously revived some brain cells in dead pigs succeeded in repeating the process in more organs. Source
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A.I. Predicts the Shape of Nearly Every Protein Known to Science
DeepMind has expanded its database of microscopic biological mechanisms, hoping to accelerate research into all living things. Source
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Does Social Media Make Teens Unhappy? It May Depend on Their Age.
Still, research looking for a direct relationship between social media and well-being has not found much. “There’s been absolutely hundreds of these studies, almost all showing pretty small effects,” said Jeff Hancock, a behavioral psychologist […]