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Your brain's crystal ball helps you understand speech and fear

Matching what your brain predicts to what actually happens gives you a jump start on how to react, but what happens when your expectations go awry?

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Humans

Break bad habits by hacking the autopilot in your brain

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Humans

How we know where our limbs are without thinking

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Humans

We accurately weigh up a person's character in 0.1 seconds

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Humans

Don't think: How your brain works things out all by itself

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Humans

Fast asleep? Your unconscious is still listening

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Humans

Why tonight’s debate is ‘narcissist’ Trump v ‘liar’ Clinton

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Rattlesnakes silently shook their tails before evolving rattles

Life

Rattlesnakes silently shook their tails before evolving rattles

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Antidepressant makes bones weaker by slowing down new growth

Health

Antidepressant makes bones weaker by slowing down new growth

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Metaphysics special: Where do good and evil come from?

We all have a sense of morality, and most of us agree on what is good. But in truth, good and evil may have a lot in common

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Humans

Metaphysics special: What is the meaning of life?

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Humans

Metaphysics special: What is consciousness?

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Humans

Money alone won't turn us into unselfish citizens

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Humans

Our biases get in the way of understanding human behaviour

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