Whatever the mirror test tells us, beluga whales pass it
In hours of underwater video footage from a New York aquarium, a beluga whale named Natasha…
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Figuring out why a nap might help people see things in new ways
Lacaux’s team also experimented with different objects the participants should hold while napping: spoons, steel spheres,…
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The nine-armed octopus and the oddities of the cephalopod nervous system
Nine arms, no problem In 2021, researchers from the Institute of Marine Research in Spain used…
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Sleeping pills stop the brain’s system for cleaning out waste
“When we used the flow fiber photometry method to look into the brains of mice, we…
