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Humans

You can recognise around 5000 faces, from family to celebrities

For much of human evolution our ancestors may have encountered only a few hundred people in their lives – but we can each recall about 5000 distinct faces

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Tyrannosaurus

Life

T. rex evolved into a monster predator by dumbing down its brain

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It has been a good/bad week for women in physics

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It has been a good/bad week for women in physics

Leader

Mind-reading devices can now access your thoughts and dreams using AI

Technology

Mind-reading devices can now access your thoughts and dreams using AI

Features

A person looking at a drone

Technology

A mind-reading headset lets people fly drones using their thoughts

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A person in a Mars simulation

Space

A third of us would go one-way to Mars – but it may shrink your brain

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A brain scan of a healthy brain

Health

We've cracked the brain's emotion code and it may help depression

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Woman sitting on bench

Mind

Your brain power varies throughout the year, peaking in autumn

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Man with post-it notes

Mind

Struggling to multitask? Your brain might have hit full capacity

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Multiple sclerosis drug is first to dramatically cut brain shrinkage

Health

Multiple sclerosis drug is first to dramatically cut brain shrinkage

An experimental treatment can nearly halve the loss of brain tissue in people who have the worst forms of multiple sclerosis, for which there are few treatments

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Health

How a positive mind really can create a healthier body

Features

Technology

Flashing checkerboard patterns let us see a picture that doesn’t exist

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Health

Nose breathing in yoga may calm the mind by slowing brainwaves

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Mind

We can train ourselves to be better at knowing when we are wrong

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