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A chicken under a person's arm

Life

No, the UK didn't vote that animals can't feel pain or emotion

Campaigners say a recent UK vote will deny sentience to animals, but the reality is rather different. The real issue is what happens to animal welfare post-Brexit

Analysis

A group of people, two in space suits, on a parabolic flight

Space

Space changes how your brain thinks and it starts right away

News

A close-up of an eye

Health

Electric zap ‘wakes’ man after 15 years in a vegetative state

News

Angela Sirigu

Health

Meet the team who 'woke' a man from 15 years in vegetative state

News

holding hands

Health

Why court ruling on ending life support is the right decision

Analysis

person with pads on their head

Humans

Five ways technology can read your mind – and what it’s good for

Features

V S Ramachandran

Humans

The fragility of you and what it says about consciousness

Features

Figure walking down corridor

Technology

Who do we think we are?

Culture

Obstacle course

Life

Consciousness helps us learn quickly in a changing world

News

A person silhouetted against a fan of red laser light

Physics

A classic quantum test could reveal the limits of the human mind

Using human consciousness as the trigger in a test of ‘spooky action at a distance’ could tell us whether mind is made of different stuff than matter

News

Humans

Brain zaps let minimally conscious people communicate for a week

News

Life

Why be conscious: The improbable origins of our unique mind

Features

Inception: peering into the science of dreams

Culture