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Humans

Want to control your dreams? These tips may boost your chances

Brain Scanner is Simon Oxenham's weekly column that sifts the pseudoscience from the neuroscience

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Health

NHS could soon use smart outfit to diagnose epilepsy

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Humans

Do you get your best work done in coffee shops? Here’s why

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Environment

Culture picks: Time to spring-clean your mind

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Humans

Everything you’ve heard about sniffing oxytocin might be wrong

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Humans

Map of the brain’s word filing system could help us read minds

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Humans

Surfing Uncertainty: Do our dynamic brains predict the world?

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Health

Thync piece: Do mind-altering wearables live up to the billing?

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Health

People who never forget their past could have unique kind of OCD

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Humans

‘Torture’ study redo shows people feel less agency under orders

A replication of Stanley Milgram's notorious torture experiments reveals that our brain yields responsibility for actions when we obey orders

Humans

How to prove controversial consciousness theory? Ask a physicist

Life

Mind-reading tech helps beginners quickly learn to play Bach

Environment

Will creating monkeys with autism-like symptoms be any use?

Health

Your face is mapped on the surface of other people’s brains