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Humans

Super-you: Train your brain to beat the inbuilt fear factory

Evolution has given us an inbuilt fear factory. But by engaging a different way of thinking we can stop panicking and weigh up the real risks

Features

Every human culture includes cooking – this is how it began

Humans

Every human culture includes cooking – this is how it began

Features

Death: A special report on the inevitable

Humans

Death: A special report on the inevitable

Features

Bryan Johnson presenting some of his ideas

Health

$100 million project to make intelligence-boosting brain implant

News

Mice’s love songs go wrong when ‘language gene’ is messed up

Life

Mice’s love songs go wrong when ‘language gene’ is messed up

News

Poo

Health

Primate labs give us an edge, says China's brain project chief

Features

Zoltan Istvan, head and shoulders, pictured in black and white with clouds in the background. He's white, square-jawed and arrogant-looking

Humans

Meet the US presidential candidate campaigning for immortality

Comment

children with Downs

Health

Parents giving unproven IQ-boosting drugs to kids with Down's

News

Woman showing toddlers a children's book

Humans

Smarter every day: Increasing intelligence changed how we see IQ

Culture

Behind the scenes at London's urban archaeology warehouse

Humans

Behind the scenes at London's urban archaeology warehouse

From scrubbing skulls to cataloguing counterfeit coins, pulling artefacts out of the ground is just the start for London's archaeologists

Features

Humans

First Americans hunted big game in Florida 14,500 years ago

News

Humans

Other minds and cryptominds, from babies to robots to God

CultureLab

Health

Evolution acting on older dads is protecting our genetic health

News

Health

Premature birth: How its effects can stay with you for life

Features