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Should verified identities become the standard online? Australia’s social media ban for under-16s shows why the question matters. Your personal information is on the dark web. What happens next? If ...

A new study by neuroscientists is the first to directly compare brain responses to faces and objects with responses to colors. The paper reveals new information about how the brain’s inferior temporal ...