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Expanding waistlines may cause shrinking brains

Life

Expanding waistlines may cause shrinking brains

Brain regions important for cognition are smaller in obese older people, making their brains look up to 16 years older than they are

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Life

Tone-deaf people have fewer brain connections

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Photos of cake can keep you slim, say psychologists

Health

Photos of cake can keep you slim, say psychologists

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Why humans can't navigate out of a paper bag

Life

Why humans can't navigate out of a paper bag

Features

Why humans can talk and chimps can't

Life

Why humans can talk and chimps can't

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Life

Why insults are better taken lying down

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Over-confidence leads us into temptation

Health

Over-confidence leads us into temptation

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Out-of-body experiences help bring avatars to life

Life

Out-of-body experiences help bring avatars to life

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Life

'Cuddle chemical' may create green-eyed monster

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Health

'Dostoevsky mice' cured of epilepsy

A strain of mice with epilepsy – named after a character in The Idiot – suggest that some forms of the disorder result from a single genetic mutation

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Life

From butterfly to caterpillar: How children grow up

Opinion

Earth

Did an ice age boost human brain size?

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Life

Scent of fear puts brain in emergency mode

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Life

Synchronised blinking stops viewers missing the action

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