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Technology

AI recreates videos people are watching by reading their minds

By analysing people's brainwaves, artificial intelligence could work out what videos people were watching and roughly recreate them on a screen

News

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Life

Why the line between life and death is now more blurred than ever

Features

Mother and baby

Humans

Babies are less afraid when they can smell their mothers

News

Henning Beck

Mind

Why embracing failure, mistakes and forgetfulness is key to success

Regulars

Some women lack odour-detecting part of brain but still sense smells

Health

Some women lack odour-detecting part of brain but still sense smells

News

Hypnosis

Health

What hypnosis does to your brain, and how it can improve your health

Features

Oxygenated blood (red) in a sleeping brain

Mind

A type of brainwave may help clean your brain while you sleep

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Mind

Europe’s first home brain-zap device for depression launched in UK

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meditation

Mind

How does consciousness work? A radical theory has mind-blowing answers

Culture

hippocampus

Mind

Newly discovered brain cells help us recall where we last saw objects

We’ve discovered brain cells that may help humans judge the distance to an object, and they remain active even if the object is no longer visible, suggesting a role in memory

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Health

Depression may reduce the amount of white matter in the brain

News

Humans

Your body's hidden language: How smell reveals more than you ever knew

Features

Technology

Supercomputer simulates 77,000 neurons in the brain in real-time

News

Mind

Man sees the world in miniature after a stroke damages his brain

News