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Why Did Our Brains Shrink?

We've lost a lemon sized piece of brain. Here are three hypotheses that try to explain what happened.

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Is Exercise Really Good for the Brain? What the Science Says

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It is common for scientific studies to produce apparently conflicting results, but the benefits of physical activity on a wide range of physical and mental health outcomes remain undeniable.

AI Assists 50-Year Math Breakthrough

Researchers at Google research lab DeepMind trained an AI system called AlphaTensor to find new, faster algorithms to tackle an age-old math problem: matrix multiplication.

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