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Brain

Sannakji is often dipped in sesame oil.

Sannakji

These severed octopus tentacles wriggle on your plate.

A slice of spectacular, possibly sugar coma-inducing cake.

Do Sugar Comas Exist?

Scientists disagree on whether they're real or imagined.

Paula Mejia January 3, 2018

Under construction.

Midday Naps Are Key to Infant Learning (and Parental Mental Health)

Scientists learned just how much sleep a baby needs to tell a “Zuser” from a “Bofel.”

Samir S. Patel August 8, 2017

Wiggle, wiggle!

Scientists Can Wiggle a Mouse's Whiskers With Electrical Fields

The work could lead to treatments for depression and epilepsy.

Kelsey Kennedy June 2, 2017

brain collections

The Inept Story Behind 100 Missing Brains at the University of Texas

Were they ever missing at all?

JPat Brown October 26, 2016

Found: Vessels That Let Your Immune System Control Your Personality

The brain and lymph system are connected after all.

Sarah Laskow July 19, 2016

I Asked Leading Entomologists: 'What’s The Smartest Bug In The World?'

Some insects can count, recognize human faces, even invent languages.

Dan Nosowitz June 23, 2016

Convolution

Map Your Murderousness With These 19th-Century Brain Charts

The mysterious Alesha Sivartha had a formidable collection of phrenology maps.

Lauren Young May 9, 2016

Lit up at night

Bloomington, Indiana

Brain Sculpture

The world's largest anatomically accurate brain sculpture.

New Haven, Connecticut

The Cushing Center

An archival collection of over 2,200 case studies which includes human brain specimens and tumor specimens.

Brain of Helen Hamilton Gardener

Ithaca, New York

Wilder Brain Collection

This collection started by a Cornell professor once held more than 600 human brain specimens, including the one that belonged to its founder.