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Health

Your autopilot mode is real - now we know how the brain does it

Ever realised you’ve driven yourself home but haven’t really been paying attention? Brain scans have shown how wandering minds switch into autopilot mode

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Technology

The dearth of women in tech is nothing to do with testosterone

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Side effects are worse when we think medication looks expensive

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A centre in France for people with visual impairment

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Blind people repurpose the brain's visual areas for language

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Adrian Owen

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I found a way to communicate with people trapped in their bodies

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Humans

We ignore what doesn’t fit with our biases – even if it costs us

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Life

Your teenager's biology demands later school starts and lie-ins

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Humans

Our greatest creation: Where maths comes from and what it's for

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Gregory Berns

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The man who reads dog minds and personalities in a brain scanner

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Monkeys can be tricked into thinking all objects are familiar

There is a cluster of neurons in monkeys’ brains that decides whether or not they have seen objects before, and stimulating it makes them see everything as familiar

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Health

Chemical controllers: How hormones influence your body and mind

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Health

Keep having nightmares? You may be getting too much sleep

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Humans

The fragility of you and what it says about consciousness

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Life

Smart but dumb: probing the mysteries of brainless intelligence

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