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Higher US welfare benefits seem to protect children's brains

The size of a child’s hippocampus can be limited by stress, and US state welfare schemes that give families $500 a month or more are linked to a reduction in this association

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Illustration of the hippocampus in a child's brain.

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Fish brains grow when they have to think more and shrink if they don't

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Wasps with no social life may find it harder to recognise others

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Animals with weird neurons may rewrite the story of brain evolution

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AI can tell what song you are listening to from your brainwaves

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AI can tell what song you are listening to from your brainwaves

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Living electrodes for linking brains to computers tested in rats

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Elon Musk demonstrated a Neuralink brain implant in a live pig

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Elon Musk demonstrated a Neuralink brain implant in a live pig

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MRI of the brain of a person on a black background with green backlight

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Man sees half of every face like it's melting due to rare brain lesion

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Bill Bryson on the miraculous human body

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Bill Bryson on the miraculous human body

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Ian Burkhart

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Brain implant lets man with paralysis move and feel with his hand

A brain-computer interface has helped a man with a severe spinal cord injury move and feel using a hand again, letting him carefully lift light objects such as a paper cup

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Human brains have ‘time cells’ that let us recall when events happened

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Human brains have ‘time cells’ that let us recall when events happened

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Hannah Critchlow

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Can we really choose our own fate, or is free will an illusion?

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Sarah Garfinkel

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How signals from the heart influence our thoughts, emotions and memory

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Sim Singhrao

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Gum disease and Alzheimer’s: The importance of oral hygiene

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