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Young woman smelling food

Health

Woman who first gained sense of smell at age 24 finds it disturbing

A woman born without the brain regions needed to smell has puzzled doctors by gaining the ability to detect some smells in her twenties – an experience that has caused her anxiety

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Profile view of man with DNA

Humans

Rapidly evolving bits of DNA helped develop the human brain

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Person undergoing a CAT scan in hospital. PET scan equipment. Medical CT scan of patient.

Humans

Wonderworks review: How stories affect our brains

Culture

An illustration of the insula in the brain

Mind

Woman loses ability to feel hungry after stroke damages her brain

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Middle aged woman looking out of the window in the boardroom

Health

Mentally demanding jobs linked with lower dementia risk in later life

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The surprising ways the place where you work affects your performance

Humans

The surprising ways the place where you work affects your performance

Features

image of people on beach

Humans

We thought our eyes turned off when moving quickly, but that's wrong

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two people with virtual reality headset

Health

Virtual roller coaster rides may help unravel causes of migraine

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gorilla

Life

Meet the puzzle-solving gorillas shedding light on how speech evolved

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Neuron map

Mind

Google has mapped a piece of human brain in the most detail ever

A team including researchers at Google took a cubic millimetre of a woman's brain, sliced it incredibly thin and scanned it to create the most detailed map yet of the connections within our brain

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Technology

In Silico review: The ambitious project to recreate the human brain

Culture

Mind

David Eagleman interview: How our brains could create whole new senses

Features

Technology

AI lets man with paralysis type by just thinking about handwriting

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Health

Science with Sam: Why can’t we stay awake indefinitely?

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