Health

May 24, 2021

Research Finds Human Brains Can Easily Adapt to Controlling a Robotic “Third Thumb”

Many humans know that our two opposable thumbs are one of the things that distinguish our species from many others within the animal kingdom. If two thumbs are useful, what about a third? A team of researchers at University College London has recently published the results of experimenting with a robotic third thumb in the journal Science Robotics.

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March 10, 2021

Researchers Discover No Functional Difference Between Male and Female Brains, Debunking Neurosexism

A review paper published in Neuroscience and Biobehavioural Reviews has analyzed thirty years' worth of brain studies to conclude that very little difference has ever been successfully shown between the male and female brain. In fact, when ignoring the long acknowledged fact that male brains are typically larger (which does not improve cognition), sex accounts for only one percent of differences observed.

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