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Our brains can understand written sentences in the ‘blink of an eye,’ study reveals

Our brains can understand written sentences in the ‘blink of an eye,’ study reveals

Participants performed their best when the sentences contained a subject, verb and object, with the fastest brain activity being seen for phrases such as "nurses clean wounds," compared to noun lists like "hearts lungs livers."


Why didn’t the Vikings colonize North America?

Why didn’t the Vikings colonize North America?

"Greenland was weeks away in terms of getting goods to market [in Europe], which made for a difficult trade network operation," Kevin McAleese, a curator at Rooms Provincial Museum in St John's in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, told Live Science in an email.