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A new high-resolution neural recording method developed by Johns Hopkins APL and the School of Medicine detects neural ...

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Early humans may have reached adulthood around the same age as great apes, but with a slower, human-like pattern of tooth ...

By tapping into the enigmatic theory of how neurons transmit signals, scientists have proven they can one day build computer ...