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The human brain includes two hemispheres connected by a bundle of nerves. The left hemisphere controls movement for the right side of the body, while the right hemisphere directs the left side.

Illustration of the global coronal magnetic field as the Sun rotates. The background is the solar corona observed in extreme-ultraviolet waveband, with global coronal magnetic field maps measured ...

Antidepressant Shows Promise for Treating Brain Tumors Sep. 20, 2024 — Researchers have used a drug screening platform they developed to show that an antidepressant, currently on the market ...

A meningioma is a tumor that forms on the membranes that cover the brain and spinal cord just inside the skull. These membranes are called the meninges and consist of three layers. Specifically ...

"The smoky cloud coming off the left hand side of the center in the image is a coronal mass ejection, or CME," James Spann, chief scientist at NOAA's Office of Space Weather Observations ...

Oct. 15, 2024 — Researchers have shown that, just like declarative memories, short-term and long-term memories for motor skills form in different regions of the brain, with the cerebellum being ...

Addiction corrupts the ability to make choices.Addiction brings about changes in the brain, but those changes do not reflect a pathological process. The pathways to addiction can be difficult to ...

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For the first time, scientists have taken near-daily measurements of the sun's global coronal magnetic field, a region of the sun that has only been observed irregularly in the past. The resulting ...

This year, Shadia Habbal, a solar eclipse researcher at the University of Hawaii, is hoping to record and analyse coronal mass ejections, which occur when the sun’s churning magnetic field ...