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Fish May Feel Each Other’s Fear Through the Same Mechanism That Drives Human Empathy
You may have heard that ‘fish don’t feel pain.’ It’s a common, persistent myth that dates back to 17th-century French philosophy. Yet, regardless of René Descartes’s many other worthwhile ideas, the scientific consensus is that he was flat-out wrong on this one. Fish, and all other classes of vertebrate animals, seem to suffer from bumps,…
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Webb Telescope Spots a Planet With ‘Gritty’ Clouds Just 40 Light-Years Away
The Webb Space Telescope just turned its infrared gaze at an exoplanet and found dense clouds swirling in the atmosphere of this quirky world.
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Aussie Researchers Reckon They’ve Figured Out Mind Control for Robots
Controlling robots with your brain could be just around the corner.
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Remnants of a Glacier Found Near Martian Equator
Scientists have spotted a relict glacier on Mars, near the equator — far from the parts of the planet where water ice is known to exist today. While this leftover glacial structure may not contain any water now, the fact that it exists where it does suggests that water ice had a more expansive footprint…