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Mind

Cracking consciousness will never be easy but we are making strides

A new way to understand where consciousness comes from and novel insights into subjective thought show that the hard problem of consciousness is worth persevering with

Leader

Is it ethical to use complex mini-brains for artificial intelligence?

Technology

Is it ethical to use complex mini-brains for artificial intelligence?

Comment

How talking to your future self can improve your health and happiness

Life

How talking to your future self can improve your health and happiness

Features

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Comment

The Experience Machine review: How our brains predict the daily world

Culture

Mind

Movie clip reconstructed by an AI reading mice's brains as they watch

News

A rat brain (red) with a grafted human brain organoid (green)

Health

Human neurons implanted into a rat's brain respond to flashing lights

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Life

‘Love hormone' may not be crucial for social bonding after all

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Health

The covid-19 virus gets into the brain – what does it do there?

Insight

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Health

Sneaking drugs into the brain could treat conditions like Alzheimer's

News

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Humans

The human brain can be squished 10 times as easily as polystyrene foam

Researchers used MRI scans and an algorithm to measure the stiffness and resilience to pressure of the brain in living people

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Health

Specific brain markers could help diagnose children with ADHD

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Health

Air pollution likely to be causing dementia, say UK science advisers

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Mind

How do we sense time? The brain cells that order our memories

Features

Life

Crows may owe their intelligence to an abundance of certain neurons

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