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Brain

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Mind

Explaining consciousness and the other biggest mysteries of your brain

What happens when we think? Why are some brains resistant to decline? How do you make a brain? What makes you smart? Find out in our guide to the most important organ

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How much sleep do you need?
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Mind

How people with extreme imagination are helping explain consciousness

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Health

How getting more daylight can improve your mental and physical health

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Alzheimer’s disease
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Mind

Neuroscientist Sophie Scott on why we laugh and a love of thermostats

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Building bionic people and controlling computers with thought alone

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Mind

The psychology of magic and how it plays with our minds

Culture
A maze that looks like a human head

Health

Mind-reading device uses AI to turn brainwaves into audible speech

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Mind

The great wonder and strangeness of the human brain

A dazzling exhibition in Lisbon celebrates the most complex of human organs with art that makes the brain sing – as well as revealing how chimps can outsmart us

Culture

Health

Pig brains have been partly revived after death – what does this mean?

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Mind

It’s not an illusion, you have free will. It’s just not what you think

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Health

It’s time to change our approach to ‘psychosomatic’ illness

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Health

Your heartbeat may help you sync up with other people to cooperate

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