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Researchers at Helmholtz Munich and the Technical University of Munich have developed a new microscope that significantly ...

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A UNIGE team identifies a key brain region that abstracts spatial information from the senses, illuminating a fundamental ...

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For instance, one study found that exposure to blue light had a positive effect on how your brain processes, alertness, and reaction times. For athletes, this may improve decision-making and help ...

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The new research, however, has found that in the morning, exposure to blue light has the opposite ... structure inside the brain, which gets signals from light-detecting cells in the eye.

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These cells connect directly to the brain’s suprachiasmatic nucleus, the central pacemaker governing circadian rhythms. This direct pathway explains why blue light exposure so powerfully ...