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True nature of consciousness: Solving the biggest mystery of your mind

Far from being a mystical “ghost in the machine”, consciousness evolved as a practical mental tool and we could engineer it in a robot using these simple guidelines

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Mind

A single severe head injury can trigger long-term brain damage

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Mind

What makes us addicts? Judith Grisel is determined to find out

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Jon Spooner (left) meets Apollo astronaut Al Worden in the Space Shed

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EEG machines can monitor the brainwaves of extremely premature babies

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Mini-brains grown in a lab show neural activity like preterm babies

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Tests at 3 years old could predict how well your brain will age

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Tests at 3 years old could predict how well your brain will age

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Neuroscientist Ed Boyden is decoding the brain with the power of light

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Is reality real? How evolution blinds us to the truth about the world

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Is reality real? How evolution blinds us to the truth about the world

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Brain scans hint the mysterious 'sonic attack' in Cuba was real

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Health

Nerve surgery helps people with paralysis control their hands and arms

People with quadriplegia can feed themselves and brush their teeth thanks to nerve surgery – and doctors say it’s time to make the surgery more widely available

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Life

Every single neuron in an animal mapped out for the first time

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Physics

The time paradox: How your brain creates the fourth dimension

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Miniature brains grown in the lab have human-like neural activity

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