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Some brains appear to fight back against Alzheimer's by helping immature brain cells survive damage instead of succumbing to it. Understanding this natural resilience could point researchers toward ...

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Space messes with astronauts' brains – and that might be a big challenge for missions beyond the Moon. With four billion or so years of evolution behind us, humans are well suited to life at normal ...