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Life

Smart but dumb: probing the mysteries of brainless intelligence

Understanding how things like slime moulds and plants can learn without a brain or even any neurons could help us fight diseases and make smarter machines

Features

Amputees control avatar by imagining moving their missing limbs

Technology

Amputees control avatar by imagining moving their missing limbs

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Health

Special cells explain why cabbage and stress churn your guts

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Humans

Photos of human faces reassembled from monkeys’ brain signals

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neuroscience

Humans

Your Brain Is a Time Machine: Why we need to talk about time

Culture

A classroom in Uttar Pradesh

Health

Learning to read and write rewires adult brain in six months

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Tired man in bed, rubbing his eye, trying to sleep

Humans

The brain starts to eat itself after chronic sleep deprivation

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Rainbow light passing through brain scan

Technology

Does mind-hack tech mean your brain needs its own legal rights?

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Humans

Deviate attempts to alter the way we perceive the world

Culture

Crayfish with one upside down on tank floor

Life

Drunken crayfish show that loneliness raises alcohol tolerance

Crayfish forced to be solitary are less affected by alcohol, because being alone appears to alter the way their nerves function

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Technology

Start-up uses biometrics to tailor music for good night’s sleep

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Technology

Our ability to think in a random way peaks at 25 then declines

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Life

Entire nervous system of an animal recorded for the first time

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Health

Destroying a type of brain cell makes mice really chilled out

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