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How menopause and Alzheimer’s change the brain in similar ways

30 August 2017

Brain changes during menopause that resemble Alzheimer's hint at how the disease starts and could help us stop it in its tracks

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Our greatest creation: Where maths comes from and what it's for

30 August 2017

Maths helps us comprehend the incredible complexity of the universe, but are we born with the ability to calculate, or did we invent it?

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