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This article dives into the potential risks associated with calls made to or from the 303 area code, particularly in Denver.

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Researchers at MIT have uncovered a powerful way the brain "unlearns" fear: through a dopamine-driven reward signal. By ...

But Kennedy and Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) also had a brief exchange over the abortion pill, mifepristone, and a bogus far-right “study” that claims the FDA’s labels are wrong and the ...

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And we wondered how the guy got a brain worm? Donald Trump’s Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took a Mother’s Day swim in a creek that reeks with sewage and high ...

Scientists this week published information on an unprecedented case in Australia, where they found and extracted a live parasitic worm from the brain of a woman in Canberra. The worm was some 8 ...

A small cluster of cells deep within our brains, called the locus coeruleus, affects how awake and attentive we are, how we ...