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Isy Suttie, who experiences the tingly feelings of ASMR, playing guitar and singing

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Video-triggered ‘brain orgasms’ are mysteriously disappearing

Many people experience a tingly feeling called autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR) when they watch whispery videos. For some, the effect is wearing off

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Middle-aged bonobos need reading glasses to groom their friends

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Middle-aged bonobos need reading glasses to groom their friends

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You are hallucinating right now to make sense of the world

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People in lab coats sniff chemicals on test strips

Life

Fruity or fermented? Algorithm predicts how molecules smell

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Close-up of a mouse's tail wrapped around the bars of a cage

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Mice fall for rubber hand illusion just like us

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A robot hand is in the foreground and Nathan Copeland can be seen in the background

Mind

Quadriplegic man feels touch on robotic hand with brain implant

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

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woman swimming

Humans

How we know where our limbs are without thinking

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There is now a sixth taste – and it explains why we love carbs

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There is now a sixth taste – and it explains why we love carbs

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Cherry or rhubarb? Orangutan mixes tasty cocktails in its mind

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Cherry or rhubarb? Orangutan mixes tasty cocktails in its mind

A pleasure-seeking ape can predict the taste of cocktails it has never tried before, which was thought to be something only humans can do

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Virtual reality helps eight paralysed people feel their legs

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Gorillas may have evolved a way to beat a cheating berry plant

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Humans

First evidence that synaesthesia gives colour to sign language

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Humans

Illusion makes people ‘feel’ force field around their body

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