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5 ways to boost your dreams and improve your health

21 March 2018

Having more dreams each night could be key to mental well-being. Here’s what to do – and what to avoid – if you want to increase your dose


A baby with microcephaly

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

2 February 2018

One in 10 babies exposed to the Zika virus during pregnancy develop abnormally small heads. A study of twins in Brazil suggests gene activity may decide which


Sergio Canavero

Inside the mind of the man who wants to transplant human heads

25 October 2017

Neurosurgeon Sergio Canavero likens himself to Peter Parker and Victor Frankenstein, and controversially claims that a successful human head transplant is imminent


Girls with binary code

The dearth of women in tech is nothing to do with testosterone

10 October 2017

Arguments over the causes of the gender gap in STEM jobs rage on. It's not due to hormones or innate brain differences, says Lise Eliot


Adrian Owen

I found a way to communicate with people trapped in their bodies

13 September 2017

All people in a vegetative state were assumed to be unconscious, until Adrian Owen asked them to imagine playing tennis and scanned their brains


Gregory Berns

The man who reads dog minds and personalities in a brain scanner

23 August 2017

Gregory Berns coaxes dogs into MRI scanners to see what's going on in their heads. It even reveals if they would make good helpers for people with disabilities


V S Ramachandran

The fragility of you and what it says about consciousness

26 July 2017

Some people see time, others feel like impostors. Their unusual brains have much to tell us about our sense of self, finds V.S. Ramachandran


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