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A pioneering study provides new evidence that gut microbes vary across primate species and can shape physiology in ways ...

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How the human brain organizes its visual memories through precise neural timing has been discovered. Researchers at the University of Southern California (USC; CA, USA) have made a significant ...

Learn how a new research roadmap could turn debates about consciousness into testable experiments.