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An ear

Technology

Mind-reading implant can decode what your ears are hearing

Electrodes put into the brain have decoded what people are hearing – the next step could be to read their thoughts

News

8 ways to keep your brain young and stave off mental decline

Health

8 ways to keep your brain young and stave off mental decline

Features

A head

Health

Silencing brain cells in mice can make them no longer care about pain

News

A person wearing the headset stares at their teacher

Technology

Brain-reading headsets trialled on 10,000 schoolchildren in China

News

Cheers! Saying thanks is good for you and those around you

Mind

Cheers! Saying thanks is good for you and those around you

Features

baby playing

Humans

Toys are us: How childhood objects may have shaped human history

Features

Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling

Life

How busting some moves on the dance floor is good for your brain

Features

city

Humans

The disorientated ape: Why clever people can be terrible navigators

Features

A picture of a brain scan

Health

Gene therapy eases Parkinson’s symptoms by rewiring parts of the brain

News

Dean Burnett: What makes your brain happy

Video

Dean Burnett: What makes your brain happy

What makes us happy? Money, love, sex? Neuroscientist Dean Burnett explains why some things create happiness and others don’t

Video

Health

MS symptoms improved by treatment that attacks glandular fever virus

News

Health

Morphing brain DNA hints at a whole new way to treat Alzheimer's

News

Mind

We've got thinking all wrong. This is how your mind really works

Features

Comment

There is no fundamental difference between male and female brains

Comment