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At high power, laser light inside a multimode optical fiber is supposed to misbehave. The beam usually breaks into a noisy, scattered pattern as the light ricochets through many paths at once.

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Why don't humans grow new brain cells? A new study shows "tunneling" neurons in songbirds may explain our limited capacity ...

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A new study in songbirds might help explain why humans don’t generate many new brain cells, called neurons, as adults ...

Researchers suggest tunneling may reflect a conserved strategy adopted by specialized migratory cell types in dense tissues.

Cells long thought to play a secondary role in brain function build their own far-reaching connections, a new study in mice ...