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DNA of Giant 'Corpse Flower' Parasite Surprises Biologists

By CHRISTIE WILCOX

The bizarre genome of the world's most mysterious flowering plants shows how far parasites will go in stealing, deleting and duplicating DNA.

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NEUROSCIENCE

 

The Brain Doesn't Think the Way You Think It Does

By JORDANA CEPELEWICZ

Familiar categories of mental functions such as perception, memory and attention reflect our experience of ourselves, but they are misleading about how the brain works. More revealing approaches are emerging.

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SLEEP

 

Sleep Evolved Before Brains. Hydras Are Living Proof.

By VERONIQUE GREENWOOD

Studies of sleep are usually neurological. But some of nature's simplest animals suggest that sleep evolved for metabolic reasons, long before brains even existed.


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NEUROSCIENCE

 

Brain's 'Background Noise' May Hold Clues to Persistent Mysteries

By ELIZABETH LANDAU

By digging out signals hidden within the brain's electrical chatter, scientists are getting new insights into sleep, aging and more.

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NEUROSCIENCE

 

The Brain 'Rotates' Memories to Save Them From New Sensations

By JORDANA CEPELEWICZ

Some populations of neurons simultaneously process sensations and memories. New work shows how the brain rotates those representations to prevent interference.

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