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Explaining consciousness and the other biggest mysteries of your brain

What happens when we think? Why are some brains resistant to decline? How do you make a brain? What makes you smart? Find out in our guide to the most important organ

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How much sleep do you need?

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How much sleep do you need?

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How people with extreme imagination are helping explain consciousness

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Health

How getting more daylight can improve your mental and physical health

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Alzheimer's disease

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Alzheimer's disease

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Neuroscientist Sophie Scott on why we laugh and a love of thermostats

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Building bionic people and controlling computers with thought alone

Building bionic people and controlling computers with thought alone

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The psychology of magic and how it plays with our minds

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The great wonder and strangeness of the human brain

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A maze that looks like a human head

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Mind-reading device uses AI to turn brainwaves into audible speech

People's brainwaves have been converted into speech using electrodes on the brain. The method could one day help people speak who have lost the ability

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Pig brains have been partly revived after death - what does this mean?

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It's not an illusion, you have free will. It's just not what you think

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It’s time to change our approach to 'psychosomatic' illness

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Your heartbeat may help you sync up with other people to cooperate

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