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neuroscience

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Humans

Want to control your dreams? These tips may boost your chances

Lucid dreamers are able to knowingly shape their dreams, and they share tips for how to do it – sticking to the science will give you the best chance

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Technology

NHS could soon use smart outfit to diagnose epilepsy

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People sit an work on their laptops in a coffee shop

Humans

Do you get your best work done in coffee shops? Here's why

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Life

Culture picks: Time to spring-clean your mind

Culture

People hugging

Humans

Everything you've heard about sniffing oxytocin might be wrong

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Humans

Map of the brain's word filing system could help us read minds

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Humans

Surfing Uncertainty: Do our dynamic brains predict the world?

CultureLab

Closeup of a man wearing the Thync neurostimulating device

Technology

Thync piece: Do mind-altering wearables live up to the billing?

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Health

People who never forget their past could have unique kind of OCD

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Humans

'Torture' study redo shows people feel less agency under orders

A replication of Stanley Milgram's notorious torture experiments reveals that our brain yields responsibility for actions when we obey orders

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Life

How to prove controversial consciousness theory? Ask a physicist

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Life

Mind-reading tech helps beginners quickly learn to play Bach

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Life

Will creating monkeys with autism-like symptoms be any use?

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Health

Your face is mapped on the surface of other people's brains

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