A woman said her "mind is blown" by the discovery of what certain people can see in their heads when they're reading. Lia Shields, 27, has been an avid book lover since she was a child, managing to ...

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The human brain continues to surprise scientists. From how it learns to the fact that our brains glow, there's a lot we have yet to learn about the inner workings of the human brain. One especially ...

When Nick Watkins was a child, he pasted articles about space exploration into scrapbooks and drew annotated diagrams of rockets. He knew this because, years later, he still had the scrapbooks, and ...