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Unconscious brain training beats phobias without the stress

Facing your fears can be unpleasant. But there may be a new way to treat phobias – encouraging you to think about scary things without you even realising it

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Are the US and China heading for a gene-editing ‘space race’?

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Girl with terminal cancer wins right to be cryogenically frozen

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Stopping brain protein from going rogue may prevent Alzheimer’s

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US healthcare still lags far behind other developed nations

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Scurvy: A tale of the sailors’ curse and a cure that got lost

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Old Scientist: Happily upholding ideals since issue number 1

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All UK doctors should join the call to decriminalise drugs

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The inventions of our lifetime, picked by the people who know

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Electric fields can stimulate deep in your brain without surgery

Deep brain stimulation might help treat obesity and depression, but requires extreme brain surgery. Now researchers have managed to use electric fields instead

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How our brains recall celebrities is mirrored by search engines

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Blood from human teens rejuvenates body and brains of old mice

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Superagers with amazing memories have Alzheimer’s brain plaques

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‘I’m more confident’: Paralysed woman’s life after brain implant

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