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Science's fake news problem: How funding pressures drive bad research

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Science's fake news problem: How funding pressures drive bad research

A productivity-driven funding culture has allowed sloppy science to flourish – but now some researchers are fighting back, says Clare Wilson

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Gelong Thubten & Ash Ranpura

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Who are we? A conversation between Buddhism and neuroscience

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Two brain networks behave differently in people who are suicidal

Mind

Two brain networks behave differently in people who are suicidal

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Mind

If you don’t notice something within 1.5 seconds, you may never see it

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Henning Beck

Mind

Why embracing failure, mistakes and forgetfulness is key to success

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Mind

Europe’s first home brain-zap device for depression launched in UK

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Mind

Newly discovered brain cells help us recall where we last saw objects

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Health

Damping down brain cell activity may help us to live longer

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Mind

Humans evolved to think faster by slowing down brain development

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Joseph Plateau

Mind

Joseph Plateau’s spinning disc illusions were the forerunner of cinema

Joseph Antoine Ferdinand Plateau was a Belgian physicist whose research on visual perception laid the foundations of film, television and animated gifs

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Mind

Your heartbeat may shape how likely you are to have a car crash

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A mind-controlled exoskeleton helped a man with paralysis walk again

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Mind

Man sees the world in miniature after a stroke damages his brain

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Mind

True nature of consciousness: Solving the biggest mystery of your mind

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