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Topic: Brain

Follow If You Dare: Live Tweeting a Brain Tumor Removal

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Happening today is a convergence of medicine, technology, social media and a testament ... oh nevermind. You know what? Houston's Memorial Hermann hospital is live-tweeting a brain surgery this morning.

By Rebecca Greenfield

Apr 18, 2012

Today in Research

Hope for Bald People; A New Dark Matter Theory

Discovered: A hair regeneration technique using stem cells, a brand new dark matter theory, brain scans can predict future weight gain and future sex and another reason to drink. 

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Apr 3, 2012

A Device That Can Almost Read Your Mind

The makers of the iBrain, a machine used to collect sleep data, have loftier plans for the EEG recording tool: mind reading. 

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Oct 19, 2011

A Timeline of the Scientific Whiplash Over Cell Phones and Cancer

Ever since the first tort suit that claimed a link between phone radiation and brain was filed in 1993, research into the subject has fallen on all ends of the spectrum.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Aug 9, 2011

The Case Against the 'Intelligence Gene'

More evidence that DNA and intelligence are related--but let's not get carried away

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