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How should we use the keys to sleep?

Technology now lets us manipulate the stages of sleep, potentially giving us a fast track to blissful rest, but we meddle with sleep at our own risk

Opinion

A person asleep in bed and enclosed in a big bubble

Technology

Sleep and dreaming: Slumber at the flick of a switch

Features

The right to fight: women at war

Technology

The right to fight: women at war

News

Technology

Human brain model and graphene win science's X Factor

News

Humans

Could botox change your life for the better?

CultureLab

Uncharted territory: Where digital maps are leading us

Technology

Uncharted territory: Where digital maps are leading us

Features

Why musical genius comes easier to early starters

Life

Why musical genius comes easier to early starters

News

Freaky feeling: Why androids make us uneasy

Life

Freaky feeling: Why androids make us uneasy

Features

Life

Take a peek inside the brain's filing cabinet

News

Humans

The science of Sherlock Holmes

The ace detective continues to enthrall us, as two new books, The Scientific Sherlock Holmes by James O'Brien and Mastermind by Maria Konnikova, show

CultureLab

Humans

West vs Asia education rankings are misleading

Comment

Humans

How to reduce the toll from US gun violence

Comment

Life

Three gods: The hardest logic puzzle ever

Features

Technology

App for quizzing your way to being a mastermind

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