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We all intuitively think of ourselves as independent creatures with strong free will. However, many disturbing experiments about fashion, conformity, obedience, environment, choice and opinions have been troubling this idea we make of ourselves. These ought to be lessons of humility for all of us.

Un peu moins de 100 personnes réunies autour d’un projet médical classique dans son ambition : soigner, mais à l'approche ambitieuse.

? worldwide team of neuroscience researchers have begun using the crowdsource approach to crack open one of the greatest problems in any scientific field.

Unfortunately, in most universities, the life sciences are being taught with scarce attention to their historical and epistemological foundations, or to the socio-cultural, political, and economic factors that influence them. A multi-perspective approach to science education is urgently needed.

Rats thousands of miles apart collaborate on simple tasks with their brains connected through the internet

We have 7,000 languages. Each of these languages encompasses a world-view, encompasses the ideas and predispositions and cognitive tools developed by thousands of years of people in that culture. Each one of those languages offers a whole encapsulated universe.

« Le libre arbitre existe-t-il ? » C’est la question que s’est posée il y a quelque temps David Louapre sur son blog Science Etonnante et qui a fait affluer un torrent de commentaires rassemblant des opinions très diverses sur le sujet

Mobile DNA elements called retrotransposons may be a source of genetic variation in nerve cells.

Une équipe, dirigée par des neuroscientifiques du MIT, a mis au point un moyen de surveiller la façon dont les cellules du cerveau se coordonnent les unes avec les autres, pour contrôler les comportements spécifiques, tels que le lancement d’un mouvement ou la détection d’une odeur.

In this video abstract, Jean Lorenceau, of the Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle Epinière in Paris, describes how his system works, relying on a special flickering screen display, an eye tracker, and a visual illusion, to make possible the smooth movements of the eye necessary for writing.