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Replacing the polygraph: Brain imaging could give us a reliable lie detector
It’s fairly common knowledge at this point that the polygraph test for detecting who is lying is not reliable enough ...

Gender and the brain: Are there hardwired differences between men and women?
The idea that genders are different in a neurological sense is picking up considerable momentum in the hard sciences. It could have ...

With imaging advances, brain researchers no longer rely on cadavers and freak accidents
The increased use of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) as a research tool could lead to better understanding of a wide ...

Star Trek-like transporter might solve brain disease mysteries, understand religious belief
Scientists have modeled a Star Trek-like transporter illusion to learn about how the human brain shapes our sense of spatial ...