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Health and wellness
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Discovered in 2012, this microscopic mechanism pumps cerebrospinal fluid to wash away the day's neurotoxic waste.
Biology
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These invertebrates rebuild an entire organism from a tiny fragment and retain learned behaviors after regenerating their brain.
Health and wellness
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Far from inhaling air symmetrically, your nervous system inflates and deflates your nostrils in a continuous relay to optimize your smell and protect your lungs.
Health and wellness
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For decades, endorphins were credited for post-workout bliss, but neuroscience discovered that the brain produces its own cannabinoid to dispel pain and anxiety.
Animals
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Far from delivering blind shocks, this fish emits calibrated pulses that force victims to reveal their hiding spots and takes control of their neurons.
Health and wellness
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Far from being simple salt water, crying triggered by intense feelings contains hormones like ACTH and endorphins to restore nervous balance.
Health and wellness
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Your body performs an automatic double inhalation every five minutes to keep your lungs from deflating and to calibrate your nervous system.
Nature
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Extreme regeneration capacity in marine echinoderms
Health and wellness
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Far from being an expendable organ, it houses a tactical reserve of millions of cells ready to deploy in a vascular crisis.
Health and wellness
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Discovered at the beginning of the 21st century, this neuroimmune circuit shows how the nervous system silences hyperactive defenses in a matter of minutes.
Nature
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This botanical wonder of the temperate rainforests of southern Chile alters the shape, color, and venation of its leaves to mimic surrounding plants.
Nature
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At barely 200 micrometers long, this insect found a radical biological solution: dissolving 95% of its brain DNA to be able to fly.