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Today on the show, we meet a prosthetic designer and a neuroscientist fascinated with understanding how the brain and body might adapt to something we haven't had before — a third thumb. Dani Clode and Tamar Makin spoke to Short Wave in Washington D.C., at the 2023 annual meeting for the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

TikTok is encouraging us to embrace the tearful look as an aesthetic. Are these sad girl makeup trends problematic or encouraging us to show our feelings? 

Scientists have shown for the first time that briefly tuning into a person's individual brainwave cycle before they perform a learning task dramatically boosts the speed at which cognitive skills improve.

The first study to show that delivering information at the natural tempo of our neural pulses accelerates our ability to learn.

Our brains are far more varied than they think

With Spotify entering this £3.5bn global market, it’s clear they have become commonplace... but can you really say you’ve ‘read’ the books?

Researchers questioned whether or not there are impacts on ’empathy, compassion and critical thinking’.

Exposure to blue light from use of tablets and smartphones, may alter hormone levels in young children, scientists say.

A decrease in life satisfaction scores could also be linked to changes in cognitive and social appraisals of what a question about one’s satisfaction with life means, such as an increased sense of a larger social world.

Girls and boys might be more vulnerable to the negative effects of social media use at different times during their adolescence, say an international team of scientists.