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Machine learning shows exactly when to zap brain to boost memory
Jolting the brain with electricity really does seem to boost memory, but only if it鈥檚 done at the right time. Now we can detect when the brain could use a shock
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Humans
Your true self: How your personality changes throughout life
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Your true self: Why it鈥檚 morals that make the human
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Your true self: The future is a foreign person
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Psychedelic drugs push the brain to a state never seen before
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Creative people physically see and process the world differently
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Life
Entire nervous system of an animal recorded for the first time
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Humans
We dream loads more than we thought 鈥� and forget most of it
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People on ecstasy feel loved-up because MDMA boosts trust
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Destroying a type of brain cell makes mice really chilled out
Taking deep breaths during meditation or yoga can make you feel relaxed, but we don鈥檛 know why. Now some extremely chilled-out mice have given us a clue
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MRI brain scans train machines to see the world more like us
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Inside knowledge: What separates fact from belief
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Inside knowledge: Why we like to know useless stuff
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Inside knowledge: What makes scientific knowledge special
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