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Humans

Your true self: How your personality changes throughout life

You are not the person you were as a child, or even last year. The discovery that our characters change is unnerving, but embrace it and it can be empowering

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Your true self: The future is a foreign person

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

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Health

Psychedelic drugs push the brain to a state never seen before

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Health

Creative people physically see and process the world differently

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Life

Entire nervous system of an animal recorded for the first time

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Humans

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

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Health

People on ecstasy feel loved-up because MDMA boosts trust

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Health

Destroying a type of brain cell makes mice really chilled out

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Technology

MRI brain scans train machines to see the world more like us

Teaching machine learning algorithms to recognise objects in a more human-like way could make it easier for us to trust them in systems like driverless cars

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Life

Inside knowledge: What's really going on in the minds of animals

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Life

Inside knowledge: Why we like to know useless stuff

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Humans

Inside knowledge: Why knowing thyself is the hardest thing

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Inside knowledge: What makes scientific knowledge special

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