The use of emoticons affects our corresponding brain areas and can actually trigger emotions.
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The idea of left brain (logical) and right brain (creative) has no basis in neuroscience and is in fact a myth.
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MIT has developed a camera that captures the speed of light at a trillion frames per second.
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Scientists are working on a portable spray-on-skin that can heal severe wounds in just a few minutes.The spray mainly contains important proteins that can reprogram the injured cells to become stem cells, and back to young uniformed skin cells. So far they were able to accelerate healing process from 12 weeks to 21 days with a similar approach.
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The left ear is more responsive to words of love and emotion whispered into it than the right.
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Optical illusions occur when what the eyes see conflicts with what the brain expects.
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The gas that gives rotten eggs their distinctive foul smell may slow ageing and block damaging chemical reactions inside cells, according to scientists in China.
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Scientists have revived a flowering plant from a fruit stored away in permafrost by Arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago.
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