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Life

Why the line between life and death is now more blurred than ever

Brains resurrected after death, communications with people in comas and advances in cryogenics all suggest that life's end is less final than we thought

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Humans

Babies are less afraid when they can smell their mothers

News

Henning Beck

Mind

Why embracing failure, mistakes and forgetfulness is key to success

Regulars

Some women lack odour-detecting part of brain but still sense smells

Health

Some women lack odour-detecting part of brain but still sense smells

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Hypnosis

Health

What hypnosis does to your brain, and how it can improve your health

Features

Oxygenated blood (red) in a sleeping brain

Mind

A type of brainwave may help clean your brain while you sleep

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Mind

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

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Mind

How does consciousness work? A radical theory has mind-blowing answers

Culture

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Mind

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

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Depression may reduce the amount of white matter in the brain

Health

Depression may reduce the amount of white matter in the brain

Depression appears to cause changes to the structure of the brain, as well as the other way around. That may be due to behaviour changes that can shrink unused brain pathways

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Humans

Your body's hidden language: How smell reveals more than you ever knew

Features

Technology

Supercomputer simulates 77,000 neurons in the brain in real-time

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Mind

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

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Humans

Dean Burnett on why disruptive teens might have saved the human race

Regulars