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Our greatest creation: Where maths comes from and what it's for

Maths helps us comprehend the incredible complexity of the universe, but are we born with the ability to calculate, or did we invent it?

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Gregory Berns

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The man who reads dog minds and personalities in a brain scanner

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Monkeys can be tricked into thinking all objects are familiar

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Chemical controllers: How hormones influence your body and mind

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Keep having nightmares? You may be getting too much sleep

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V S Ramachandran

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The fragility of you and what it says about consciousness

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Smart but dumb: probing the mysteries of brainless intelligence

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Amputees control avatar by imagining moving their missing limbs

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Special cells explain why cabbage and stress churn your guts

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Humans

Photos of human faces reassembled from monkeys’ brain signals

Cracking the code on how the brain is able to compute so many different kinds of faces has made it possible to recreate the faces shown to monkeys

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Humans

Your Brain Is a Time Machine: Why we need to talk about time

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Learning to read and write rewires adult brain in six months

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Humans

The brain starts to eat itself after chronic sleep deprivation

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Does mind-hack tech mean your brain needs its own legal rights?

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