FOR READERS: I Want to See Your Brain
FOR READERS Today’s reader topic comes from QSFer Jennifer Slusher: If you could spend the day walking around the inside of your favorite queer author’s head, who would it be and … Read more
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SCIENCE: Boy Could Literally Be Scared to Death
A 5-year-old boy has a rare brain condition that could cause him to be literally scared to death, according to news reports. Reed Havlik, who lives in Iowa, has a … Read more
SCIENCE: Space Shrinks Your Brain
Going to space does more than change the way you look at the world — it also changes your brain. In a new small study, published today (Oct. 24) as … Read more
SCIENCE: There’s a Brain in Your Butt
You’re reading these words because you have a brain in your head. But did you know you also have a brain in your butt? OK, not a literal brain — … Read more
SCIENCE: Trans Kids’ Brains Resemble Their Gender Identity
A new study led by a Belgian neurologist found that brain activity in transgender people resembles that found in cisgender people of their gender more than their sex assigned at … Read more
SCIENCE: Dying Brains Silence Themselves in a Spreading Dark Wave
At the edge of life and death is a spreading dark wave. Scientists spotted it first in rabbits. In a series of papers published throughout the 1940s, Harvard biologist Aristides … Read more
New Company Wants to Map Your Brain, But It Will Kill You
Four things are true: One, a startup called Nectome plans to embalm the living brains of dying people, with the promise that the preserved tissues might someday be brought back … Read more
SCIENCE: Your Brain is a Multiverse
Scientists studying the brain have discovered that the organ operates on up to 11 different dimensions, creating multiverse-like structures that are “a world we had never imagined.” By using an … Read more