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Brain training apps claim to make us smarter, but there is no evidence

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Brain training apps claim to make us smarter, but there is no evidence

There are plenty of apps that offer mental exercises claiming to make users smarter the more they play. Not only are they not much fun, but studies show they have no effect on performance, says Adrian Hon

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Nineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness review: Complex and engaging

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DY5ANJ Which way to go?

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Future Stories review: Has thinking about the future got even harder?

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Flush review: Stop letting human faeces go down the toilet

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We need to act now to give future generations a better world

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We need to act now to give future generations a better world

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Who is Ancestor X? The biggest mystery in human evolution

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Who is Ancestor X? The biggest mystery in human evolution

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A4GTM3 Author, ecologist, inventor and scientist Professor James Lovelock in his laboratory at home on the Devon Cornwall border UK.. Image shot 2004. Exact date unknown.

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Writing Gaia review: The letters of James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis

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3D models of the femur and ulnae of Sahelanthropus tchadensis

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Human ancestors may have walked on two legs 7 million years ago

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Am I Normal? review: Deep-dive sets us straight on our need for norms

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Digital restoration of fossil child and adult crania

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Shape of human brain has barely changed in past 160,000 years

An analysis of fossils suggests changes in the shape of the braincase during human evolution were linked to alterations in the face, rather than changes in the brain itself

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Life As Told By a Sapiens to a Neanderthal review: Joyful curiosity

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Beware the rise of corporate rituals designed to manipulate employees

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Prehistoric dart-throwing atlatl weapon even more deadly than thought

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When did humans start making art and were Neanderthals artists too?

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