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Surprise! Having a big brain really does mean having less muscle

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Surprise! Having a big brain really does mean having less muscle

It’s an evolutionary mystery how humans and other primates found the energy to support their large brains, but now it seems sacrificing some muscle might have helped

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A surgeon passing a surgical implement to a colleague

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Surgical instruments may spread Alzheimer’s proteins

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Birds 'dream sing' by moving their vocal muscles in their sleep

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Birds 'dream sing' by moving their vocal muscles in their sleep

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Neurons in the brain

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First glimpse of how genes may cause mental health problems

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A scan of a brain during an epileptic fit

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Some people with epilepsy can learn to stop their own seizures

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A baby with microcephaly

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Brain genes hint at why Zika doesn’t always cause microcephaly

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Depriving the brain of a sense may improve stroke recovery

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Depriving the brain of a sense may improve stroke recovery

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addiction artwork

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The love drug that could draw people away from any addiction

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A brain scan can reveal which people you're friends with

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Ancient jawbone suggests humans left Africa 50,000 years earlier

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Ancient jawbone suggests humans left Africa 50,000 years earlier

We thought that Homo sapiens were confined to Africa until 120,000 years ago, but a jawbone from an Israeli cave reveals an exodus over 170,000 years ago

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Some people identify smells as easily as if they were colours

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People with diabetes seem to be protected against migraine

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A daily blast of sound and electrical pulses may tame tinnitus

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It's never too late to get a tattoo, an implant – or new senses

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