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Goodbye, paper: What we miss when we read on screen

Life

Goodbye, paper: What we miss when we read on screen

Digital technology is transforming the way we read and write. Is it changing our minds too – and if so, for better or worse?

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Computer with human-like learning will program itself

Technology

Computer with human-like learning will program itself

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Can chocolate boost memory? Only in insane amounts

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Can chocolate boost memory? Only in insane amounts

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This is what brain cell conversations look like

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This is what brain cell conversations look like

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Locked-in people's awareness revealed by rainbow hair

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Locked-in people's awareness revealed by rainbow hair

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Killer in the brain could help treat Parkinson's

Health

Killer in the brain could help treat Parkinson's

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Why language is neither an instinct nor innate

Life

Why language is neither an instinct nor innate

CultureLab

Brave or reckless? Thrill-seekers' brains can tell you

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Brave or reckless? Thrill-seekers' brains can tell you

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Computer mind meld gives voice to man after a stroke

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Automatic authors: Making machines that tell tales

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Automatic authors: Making machines that tell tales

It's one of the toughest challenges in artificial intelligence: teaching a computer to understand us so well that it can write a story we'll want to hear

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Life

Upside-down world: the goggles that remake reality

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Life

Let science decide the voting age

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Life

Simply irresistible: Be smart, powerful and hireable

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Life

Cerebellum's growth spurt turned monkeys into humans

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