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Chemical controllers: How hormones influence your body and mind
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We may finally be able to slow Parkinson’s, with a diabetes drug
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Brain box: Multitasking chips that can match the human mind
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Eating a lower calorie diet improves learning ability in worms
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Signs of Alzheimer鈥檚 found in chimpanzees for the first time
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Keep having nightmares? You may be getting too much sleep
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Awesome awe: The emotion that gives us superpowers
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The fragility of you and what it says about consciousness
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Stem cells in the brain’s hypothalamus help mice stay young
A cluster of brain stem cells fight ageing in mice. They may do this by releasing molecules of micro-RNA 鈥� a process that anti-ageing drugs may be able to mimic
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Fish can’t recognise faces if they鈥檙e upside down 鈥� just like us
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Your eardrums move in sync with your eyes but we don鈥檛 know why
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Smart but dumb: probing the mysteries of brainless intelligence
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Brain-training game fails test against regular computer games
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