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Are you an empathetic person?

This is how an hour of walking through nature influences your brain

After a 60-minute walk in nature, activity in brain regions involved in stress processing decreases, a new study concludes.

Feeling alone and unhappy accelerates aging more than tobacco

They conclude that psychological factors, such as feeling unhappy, lonely or desperate, add up to 1.65 years to biological age, more than smoking.

They design a 'memory prosthesis' to restore memories

These are electrodes that are inserted into the brain and mimic what the hippocampus does naturally. It works better in people with poor memory.

A small genetic mutation made us smarter than Neanderthals

This is what made us so different from Neanderthals. A subtle change in a single gene gave us the advantage.

The human brain did not shrink 3,000 years ago

A recent study shatters the theory of evolution. The work bucks the widely held belief that modern humans experienced an evolutionary decline in brain size. According to experts, the size of the human brain has not changed in probably 300,000 years.

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