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Side effects are worse when we think medication looks expensive

People have been found to experience stronger side effects when a treatment looks more expensive, according to a study of the nocebo effect

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A centre in France for people with visual impairment

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Blind people repurpose the brain's visual areas for language

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Adrian Owen

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I found a way to communicate with people trapped in their bodies

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Humans

We ignore what doesn’t fit with our biases – even if it costs us

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Life

Your teenager's biology demands later school starts and lie-ins

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Humans

Our greatest creation: Where maths comes from and what it's for

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Gregory Berns

Life

The man who reads dog minds and personalities in a brain scanner

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Life

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

One of the largest ever studies of the causes of nightmares has found that they are linked to worrying before bedtime, and sleeping for more than 9 hours

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Humans

The fragility of you and what it says about consciousness

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Life

Smart but dumb: probing the mysteries of brainless intelligence

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Technology

Amputees control avatar by imagining moving their missing limbs

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Health

Special cells explain why cabbage and stress churn your guts

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