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The superior colliculus, a brain region that manages eye movements, also plays a key role in higher cognitive functions like categorization and decision-making, acting like graph paper to help solve spatial problems

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Surprisingly simple model by physicists and neuroscientists explains how brain cells organize and connect based on general principles of networking and self-organization, rather than biological features of an organism, that could apply to non-biological networks like social interactions as well.

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Nutrient found in beef and dairy improves immune response to cancer in mice

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