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To investigate, the researchers studied recordings of brain activity in young mice and examined individual neurons from their brains.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 23, 2026

Jason died May 12, 2026, of brain cancer.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2026

"We found fundamental changes in brain circuits occurring in young mice that still had normal learning and memory, and importantly, that those changes predicted the development of cognitive deficits at older ages."

From Science Daily ● Aug. 23, 2026

Young mice carrying APOE4 showed excessive neuronal activity in two areas of the hippocampus, a brain region central to memory.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 23, 2026

Phineas's reconstructed brain matches brain scans of her patients who had cortex tumor surgery.

From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman

The brains who powered China’s surprising AI leap.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 21, 2026

Scientists now know that some members of Homo had very small brains, while evidence suggests that Paranthropus and Australopithecus were also capable of complex behaviors.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026

Until now, however, scientists have had a limited understanding of exactly where synaptic loss occurs in the brains of living people because conventional imaging methods such as magnetic resonance imaging cannot specifically measure synapses.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026

Unlike the brains inside our heads, these organoids do not have a body that can get sick and die.

From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026

Of course she had no idea if ostriches cared about that sort of thing; perhaps there was some advantage to having a skull full of eyeballs instead of brains.

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood

Hours before or after they passed, another member of the human family, likely the smaller brained, big-jawed Paranthropus, hurried along the same shoreline.

From Science Magazine ● Nov. 27, 2024

They found that the larger brained primate species did not solve the fruit-finding puzzle more efficiently than smaller brained mammals.

From Science Daily ● May 28, 2024

Clevinger, his long hair brained into pigtails, allowed three runs, two earned, and six hits in 4 1/3 innings while striking out six and walking two.

From Seattle Times ● May 10, 2022

At least there’s nothing pointy on the Steam Deck, unlike some of the book corners I’ve brained myself with over the years.

From The Verge ● Mar. 29, 2022

No, it was meant to determine if you were right brained or left brained, usually connoted by handedness.

From "Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story" by Nora Raleigh Baskin

We are a long way here from Thor developing the wheel or the Fat Broad braining the Snake.

From Time Magazine Archive

At times, an invisible finger tapped at the panes; it was some bird of the night, drawn by the light, braining itself against the glass….

From Letters from my Windmill by Alphonse Daudet

They succeed; but not without difficulty, and a free handling of handspikes—almost braining the apes before they consent to relinquish it.

From The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea by Mayne Reid

"I guess that was nigh braining the child," quoth Miss Amanda, with the greatest coolness, and without making the least apology.

From Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

Oh the demons, they were cackling while he sat devouring a great moose joint, until he was close to braining them with the yellow ball of the joint.

From The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story by Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington) O'Brien