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Seals only sleep with half their brain when they're out at sea

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Seals only sleep with half their brain when they're out at sea

Northern fur seals mostly sleep with half their brain while they’re at sea, but sleep with all their brain while on land – unlike any other animal studied

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People with big brains have a different brain structure too

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Walter Pitts

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How a frog’s eye robbed us of a genius’s AI masterwork

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A brain implant

Health

Brain implant for OCD surprisingly helps alleviate diabetes too

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A man thinking hard and a lightbulb

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Aha! What happens in your brain when you have a lightbulb moment

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A woman laughing

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The woman who laughs uncontrollably when others get tickled

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DeepMind AI developed navigation neurons to solve a maze like us

Technology

DeepMind AI developed navigation neurons to solve a maze like us

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scene from Emma

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Elements of surprise: What fiction plots tell us about our minds

Culture

Smart people literally have bigger brain cells than the rest

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Smart people literally have bigger brain cells than the rest

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A brain shape drawn on a petri dish held by a gloved hand

Life

Why growing human brain tissue in a dish is an ethical minefield

The increasing ability to create mini human brains in labs or integrate human cells into animal brains is rightly provoking worries about their use, says Alex Pearlman

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Humans

Tune in your head? Mind-reading tech can guess how it sounds

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Humans

Your mind is not an iceberg – there's nothing under the surface

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Brain zap can make people re-experience old dreams while awake

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People with Tourette's may be better at learning without trying

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