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Watch a foot-tickling machine discover the most ticklish spot on feet

Technology

Watch a foot-tickling machine discover the most ticklish spot on feet

The TickleFoot device stimulates the most ticklish spots of the human foot – for women it was found to be the centre of the arch, while for men it is slightly closer to the toes

News

Stock image of a blind person walking with a stick

Health

People who are blind may use the brain’s visual cortex for movement

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FMRI scan during working memory tasks

Mind

Brain scanning studies are usually too small to find reliable results

Analysis

Mature man sleeping wearing eye mask close up

Mind

Brain cells that regulate wakefulness may become overactive with age

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Young woman with headphones and smartphone leaning against wall

Mind

There are neurons in the brain that only seem to respond to singing

News

Hybrid AI: A new way to make machine minds that really think like us

Technology

Hybrid AI: A new way to make machine minds that really think like us

Features

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Mind

We may be unable to grow new brain cells after we enter adulthood

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Health Check newsletter: The brain’s amazing adaptability

Health

Health Check newsletter: The brain’s amazing adaptability

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Illustration of SARS-Cov-2 virus

Mind

Covid-19 brain fog: What we know about lingering neurological effects

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Person with encephalography electrode

Humans

Unknown voices spark more brain activity in sleep than familiar ones

Unfamiliar voices seem to put the sleeping brain on alert in a way that familiar voices don’t

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Health

Florian Solzbacher interview: Mind-reading implant may soon go on sale

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Mind

Human brain cells in a dish learn to play Pong faster than an AI

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Technology

2021 in review: When a brain blob in a dish grew a pair of ‘eyes’

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Health

Some genes in the brain may make 100 different proteins

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