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Dolphin moms use ‘baby talk’ with their calves | Striking similarities discovered between human and dolphin “motherese”

New excess mortality estimates show increases in US rural mortality during second year of COVID19 pandemic. It identifies 1.2 million excess deaths from March '20 through Feb '22, including an estimated 634k excess deaths from March '20 to Feb '21, and 544k estimated from March '21 to Feb '22.

In a clinical trial of a new hair loss drug, 23% of alopecia patients who had lost over half their scalp hair regained 80% scalp hair coverage after 6 months of treatment, compared to 1.6% of patients in the placebo group.

Toxic ideas online are spreading and growing through the use of irony, analysis shows

Scientists have discovered human brain signals travelling across the outer layer of neural tissue that naturally arrange themselves to resemble swirling spirals, during both resting and cognitive states, and to help organise brain activity and cognitive processing

69,525 reports of dogs biting humans reveal that the risk of being bitten is higher on hot, sunny, and smoggy days

Short sleep may not be bad for all brains: Study shows some people can cope with less sleep without obvious negative associations with brain morphometry, and that sleepiness and sleep problems may be more related to brain structural differences than duration.

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