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A new generation of robots is beginning to take shape, one that moves, senses, and adapts more like living creatures.

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Police in Hungary have arrested a 30-year-old man who investigators say collected human body parts that he’d gathered from abandoned cemeteries and from his workplace at a hospital. Hungary’s National ...

Hungarian police say the 30-year-old admitted preparing food from human body parts allegedly obtained from a hospital and abandoned cemeteries Christina Coulter has been a Staff Writer covering crime ...

The wiring and rewiring of the brain never ends. Neural pathways are constantly being reshaped as we interact with the world ...

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In 1924, the psychologist John Watson made a famous offer. Give me a dozen healthy infants, he wrote, and I will train any one of them to become any specialist I choose—doctor, lawyer, artist, even ...