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Brain box: Multitasking chips that can match the human mind

An electrical component once thought impossible is delivering machine minds that can think on their own

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Eating a lower calorie diet improves learning ability in worms

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Eating a lower calorie diet improves learning ability in worms

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Signs of Alzheimer’s found in chimpanzees for the first time

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Signs of Alzheimer’s found in chimpanzees for the first time

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Health

Keep having nightmares? You may be getting too much sleep

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Health

Stem cells in the brain's hypothalamus help mice stay young

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Humans

The fragility of you and what it says about consciousness

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Awesome awe: The emotion that gives us superpowers

Health

Awesome awe: The emotion that gives us superpowers

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Life

Fish can't recognise faces if they’re upside down – just like us

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Your eardrums move in sync with your eyes but we don’t know why

Health

Your eardrums move in sync with your eyes but we don’t know why

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Life

Smart but dumb: probing the mysteries of brainless intelligence

Understanding how things like slime moulds and plants can learn without a brain or even any neurons could help us fight diseases and make smarter machines

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Technology

Brain-training game fails test against regular computer games

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Health

Serious head injuries nearly double your risk of dementia

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Health

Using light to reset the body clock can treat brain disorders

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Life

The ethics issue: Should we make everyone 'normal'?

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