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A new study in *Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience* finds that adolescents with higher intelligence scores develop specialized brain hemisphere functions more quickly than peers. This shift from ...

A new study finds that as children mature, the left and right brain hemispheres become less synchronized, with the fastest specialization seen in adolescents with superior intelligence. Researchers ...

We observed that a stable self-localized ultrafast pencil beam can emerge inside a standard multimode fiber near the critical power. This beam enables fast, high-resolution, volumetric imaging of ...