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Some people identify smells as easily as if they were colours

Humans

Some people identify smells as easily as if they were colours

Most people are much better at identifying colours than smells, but one group of hunter-gatherers from the Malay Peninsula shows the opposite pattern

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Opioids that hit different brain target could be less addictive

Health

Opioids that hit different brain target could be less addictive

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Why do female monkeys spend so long looking at rugged males?

Life

Why do female monkeys spend so long looking at rugged males?

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Huge dose of brain chemical dopamine may have made us smart

Humans

Huge dose of brain chemical dopamine may have made us smart

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Your eardrums move in sync with your eyes but we don’t know why

Health

Your eardrums move in sync with your eyes but we don’t know why

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Theatre takes a technological leap to probe the nature of memory

Health

Theatre takes a technological leap to probe the nature of memory

Culture

Your brain fills gaps in your hearing without you realising

Health

Your brain fills gaps in your hearing without you realising

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Sociable woodpeckers that cooperate have evolved smaller brains

Life

Sociable woodpeckers that cooperate have evolved smaller brains

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Monkeys should be able to talk just like us – so why don't they?

Life

Monkeys should be able to talk just like us – so why don't they?

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Brain stimulation guides people through an invisible maze

Technology

Brain stimulation guides people through an invisible maze

Completely without seeing it, people successfully navigated a virtual maze guided only by flashes of light in their brain caused by magnetic stimulation

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Health

How our brains recall celebrities is mirrored by search engines

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Technology

‘I’m more confident’: Paralysed woman’s life after brain implant

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Technology

First home brain implant lets ‘locked-in’ woman communicate

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Life

Giggling rats reveal the most ticklish part of our brains

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