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Physics

Super-you: Discover the physics genius inside your brain

Without even realising, you perform fiendishly complex real-time calculations and predict the future like no other species can

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Humans

Our brains record and remember things in exactly the same way

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Humans

Zap to the brain alters libido in unique sex study

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Health

Bad memories stick around if you sleep on them

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Humans

We may be able to tap into our memories from infancy

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Brain stimulation guides people through an invisible maze

Technology

Brain stimulation guides people through an invisible maze

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Health

Treatment for chronic pain can be lethal, but there is an answer

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Health

Hurt blocker: To treat chronic pain, look to the brain not body

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Health

Why some itches can’t be scratched – and how to combat them

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Health

Stopping brain protein from going rogue may prevent Alzheimer’s

Interfering with a crucial protein in mice can stop it turning bad – a trick that seems to prevent Alzheimer’s and may explain why other treatments have failed

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Humans

Synaesthetes who ‘see’ calendar hint how our brains handle time

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Life

The world in 2076: Machines outsmart us but we're still on top

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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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