Health
How you can harness the placebo effect
It can influence your body as strongly as some treatments – in the short term. Here's how to exploit the power of positive thinking
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Humans
How not to get duped by coincidences
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Earth
How you can make the greenest life choices
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Humans
Critical thinking is needed throughout life, not just in science
Opinion
Humans
Scans prove there’s no such thing as a ‘male’ or ‘female’ brain
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Humans
A welcome blow to the myth of distinct male and female brains
Opinion
Humans
What does a memory in my brain look like?
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Humans
Robot language tutors to get kids up to speed before school
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Humans
Computers learn to create photos of bedrooms and faces on demand
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Health
How high-fat ketogenic diet acts on the brain to help epilepsy
The ketogenic diet has been used to treat severe epilepsy for decades. Now scientists have discovered how it acts, a more palatable diet could be developed
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Mind
Brain zaps could boost our minds when computers see us flagging
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Health
Craving control: how food messes with your mind
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Humans
Kids’ sense of fairness depends on country they were born in
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Health
Ultrasound prises open brain’s protective barrier for first time
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