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Electrodes fitted behind your ear can make you walk faster

A type of electrical skull stimulation makes us step out faster with longer strides – a finding that could help people with balance disorders to walk more easily

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

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

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Surprise! Having a big brain really does mean having less muscle

Life

Surprise! Having a big brain really does mean having less muscle

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Birds 'dream sing' by moving their vocal muscles in their sleep

Life

Birds 'dream sing' by moving their vocal muscles in their sleep

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Young 'dinosauromorphs' may have begged for food like baby birds

Life

Young 'dinosauromorphs' may have begged for food like baby birds

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Some people identify smells as easily as if they were colours

Humans

Some people identify smells as easily as if they were colours

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Opioids that hit different brain target could be less addictive

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Opioids that hit different brain target could be less addictive

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Why do female monkeys spend so long looking at rugged males?

Life

Why do female monkeys spend so long looking at rugged males?

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Huge dose of brain chemical dopamine may have made us smart

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Huge dose of brain chemical dopamine may have made us smart

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Your eardrums move in sync with your eyes but we don’t know why

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Your eardrums move in sync with your eyes but we don’t know why

It turns out our eardrums seem to change position in coordination with our eye movements. This may help our brains link what we see and hear

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Theatre takes a technological leap to probe the nature of memory

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Your brain fills gaps in your hearing without you realising

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Life

Sociable woodpeckers that cooperate have evolved smaller brains

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Life

Monkeys should be able to talk just like us – so why don't they?

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