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The amazing axon adventure

05 Feb 2016
How does the brain make connections, and how does it maintain them? Cambridge neuroscientists and mathematicians are using a variety of techniques to...
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Alice eyes. Researchers found that most children believe that people can only see each other when their eyes meet.

Windows to the self?

29 Oct 2012
Researchers have offered a convincing new theory which explains why children believe that they are invisible when they cover their eyes.
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Fiber Optics

Guiding the light

01 Sep 2007
Pioneering research shines new light on our understanding of the way we see the world. Optical fibres have now been found to exist in vertebrate eyes...
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