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Technology

Desk traffic lights show when you're too busy for interruptions

The FlowLight system tracks how busy workers are on their computers ­– and warns off colleagues if you are not to be disturbed

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Humans

Liberals are no strangers to confirmation bias after all

Analysis

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Health

Your inner hoarder: Why letting go is so hard to do

Features

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Technology

Why better technology won’t stop violent videos going viral

Analysis

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Humans

Your true self: The future is a foreign person

Features

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Humans

Your true self: Why it’s morals that make the human

Features

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Humans

Your true self: How your personality changes throughout life

Features

Our ability to think in a random way peaks at 25 then declines

Technology

Our ability to think in a random way peaks at 25 then declines

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Health

Creative people physically see and process the world differently

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Humans

We dream loads more than we thought – and forget most of it

The brain area that controls dreaming has been discovered. Studying its activity has revealed that even in non-REM sleep, we dream 71 per cent of the time

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Humans

Rorschach and his inkblots: The man, the test, the controversy

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Health

Destroying a type of brain cell makes mice really chilled out

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Technology

Phone learns to send app notifications only when you want them

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Humans

Emotions are not universal – we build them for ourselves

Features

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