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Isy Suttie, who experiences the tingly feelings of ASMR, playing guitar and singing

Humans

Video-triggered ‘brain orgasms’ are mysteriously disappearing

Many people experience a tingly feeling called autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR) when they watch whispery videos. For some, the effect is wearing off

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Middle-aged bonobos need reading glasses to groom their friends

Life

Middle-aged bonobos need reading glasses to groom their friends

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Health

You are hallucinating right now to make sense of the world

Features

People in lab coats sniff chemicals on test strips

Life

Fruity or fermented? Algorithm predicts how molecules smell

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Close-up of a mouse's tail wrapped around the bars of a cage

Life

Mice fall for rubber hand illusion just like us

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A robot hand is in the foreground and Nathan Copeland can be seen in the background

Mind

Quadriplegic man feels touch on robotic hand with brain implant

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Humans

Your brain's crystal ball helps you understand speech and fear

Features

woman swimming

Humans

How we know where our limbs are without thinking

Features

There is now a sixth taste – and it explains why we love carbs

Health

There is now a sixth taste – and it explains why we love carbs

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Cherry or rhubarb? Orangutan mixes tasty cocktails in its mind

Life

Cherry or rhubarb? Orangutan mixes tasty cocktails in its mind

A pleasure-seeking ape can predict the taste of cocktails it has never tried before, which was thought to be something only humans can do

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Health

Virtual reality helps eight paralysed people feel their legs

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Life

Gorillas may have evolved a way to beat a cheating berry plant

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Humans

First evidence that synaesthesia gives colour to sign language

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Humans

Illusion makes people ‘feel’ force field around their body

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