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Our astonishing brain is hard to figure out – and that's fantastic

It can seem a Herculean task to establish even basic facts about the human brain, but without its mind-boggling complexity we wouldn't be nearly as amazing

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Explaining consciousness and the other biggest mysteries of your brain

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How much sleep do you need?

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How much sleep do you need?

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How people with extreme imagination are helping explain consciousness

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How getting more daylight can improve your mental and physical health

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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

Building bionic people and controlling computers with thought alone

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The psychology of magic and how it plays with our minds

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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

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

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

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

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

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