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Your brain's unique response to words can reveal your identity

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Your brain's unique response to words can reveal your identity

Reading a list of words provokes brain activity unique to an individual. This could lead to a more secure alternative to fingerprint recognition or iris scans

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Bad memories drive lab rats to rescue drenched companions faster

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Bad memories drive lab rats to rescue drenched companions faster

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Flies share basic elements of human fear – but is it emotion?

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Flies share basic elements of human fear – but is it emotion?

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Rewiring of senses in a mouse brain revealed in glorious colour

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Rewiring of senses in a mouse brain revealed in glorious colour

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Brain-eating amoebas kill by turning your body against you

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Brain-eating amoebas kill by turning your body against you

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To help people with autism, researchers must first listen to us

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To help people with autism, researchers must first listen to us

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How I learned to see using my bat supersense

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How I learned to see using my bat supersense

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Teleporting trick shows how the brain helps us know our own body

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Teleporting trick shows how the brain helps us know our own body

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Weird dream? Your brain won't even try to make sense of it

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Weird dream? Your brain won't even try to make sense of it

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Direct probing of brain reveals multiple regions cause tinnitus

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Direct probing of brain reveals multiple regions cause tinnitus

51��s have peeked inside the brain of a man with tinnitus to identify the brainwaves that underlie the debilitating sensation of ringing in the ear

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Direct probing of brain reveals multiple regions cause tinnitus

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Illusion allows people to feel what it is like to be invisible

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Digital tattoo lets you control devices with mind power alone

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