Health
Your teenager’s biology demands later school starts and lie-ins
Schools in the US and beyond are right to consider a later start time for teenage students given growing evidence about adolescent body clocks, says Russell Foster
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Humans
Our greatest creation: Where maths comes from and what it’s for
Features
Environment
The man who reads dog minds and personalities in a brain scanner
Features
Environment
Monkeys can be tricked into thinking all objects are familiar
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Health
Chemical controllers: How hormones influence your body and mind
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Health
Keep having nightmares? You may be getting too much sleep
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Humans
The fragility of you and what it says about consciousness
Features
Life
Smart but dumb: probing the mysteries of brainless intelligence
Features
Mind
Amputees control avatar by imagining moving their missing limbs
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Health
Special cells explain why cabbage and stress churn your guts
When a type of cell in the intestine detects dietary irritants and stress hormones, it sends distress signals to the brain, telling it to move things along
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Humans
Photos of human faces reassembled from monkeys’ brain signals
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Humans
Your Brain Is a Time Machine: Why we need to talk about time
Culture
Health
Learning to read and write rewires adult brain in six months
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Humans
The brain starts to eat itself after chronic sleep deprivation
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