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Your body’s hidden language: How smell reveals more than you ever knew

We can sniff out fear, find solace in the smell of a loved one, breathe in the scent of happiness. How we're deciphering the subliminal signals of human scent

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Description:Human brain. Coloured composite image with three-dimensional (3D) Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scan of the left hemisphere of a healthy brain. The primary motor cortex is coloured orange, and is involved in controlling movement. The primary somatosensory cortex is coloured turquoise, and receives all sensory input from the body for processing.

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Supercomputer simulates 77,000 neurons in the brain in real-time

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A shrunken world

Mind

Man sees the world in miniature after a stroke damages his brain

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game handset

Mind

Am I addicted? The truth behind being hooked on gaming, sex or porn

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Humans

Dean Burnett on why disruptive teens might have saved the human race

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woman with head injury

Mind

A single severe head injury can trigger long-term brain damage

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Health

How what you eat directly influences your mental health

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Megan Rossi

Health

Healthy gut, happy mind: What to eat to boost how you feel

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EEG machines can monitor the brainwaves of extremely premature babies

Mind

Mini-brains grown in a lab show neural activity like preterm babies

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Your genes help determine how much sleep you need

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DNA mutation lets some people live healthily on only 4 hours’ sleep

Studying a family that lives healthily on as little as 4.5 hours of sleep per night has led to the discovery of a gene that controls how much sleep we need

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Mind

Weird illusion makes you think fabric is moving faster than it is

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Health

Ketogenic diet may stop migraines by changing the brain’s fuel

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Health

I tried to eat myself smarter at a brain-boosting supper club

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Mind

Neuroscientist Ed Boyden is decoding the brain with the power of light

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