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Sleeping Less Than 7 Hours a Week Wrecks Your Decision-Making and Judgment More Than You Realise

Your Brain Lies to You About How Impaired You AreThe most dangerous thing about sleeping less than 7 hours is not the tiredness. It is the confidence. A landmark study by Hans Van Dongen at the University of Pennsylvania tracked participants restricted to 6 hours of sleep per night for…

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Animal Memory Research Is Overturning Everything We Thought We Knew About Cognition

The assumption that crumbled firstThe standard view held that episodic memory, the ability to mentally replay a specific past event, not just respond to a learned cue, was uniquely human. Then came a 1998 study by Nicola Clayton and Anthony Dickinson at Cambridge University, published in Nature, that changed the…

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How Sea Turtles Navigate Thousands of Miles Back to Their Natal Beach Decades Later

The Imprint Happens on the Very First NightA loggerhead sea turtle hatchling weighs about 20 grams when it breaks out of its shell. Within hours, it is already doing the most important thing it will ever do: reading the Earth's magnetic field. Research published in Current Biology by Kenneth Lohmann…

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Octopuses just passed a mirror challenge few expected; scientists found they could use reflections to locate hidden prey in 73% of trials

In a groundbreaking discovery, octopuses have demonstrated an ability previously thought exclusive to vertebrates: using mirrors for navigation. Three California two-spot octopuses learned to locate hidden food by observing its reflection, a feat requiring complex spatial reasoning. This finding challenges our understanding of invertebrate intelligence and suggests a remarkable instance…

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Plant that mimics odour of half-eaten ants to attract pollinators discovered

Botanist says new Japanese species of dogbane is first evidence of plants copying ants

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27 Unfiltered Fun Facts About Animals Being Total Weirdos

Uncover 27 fun facts about animals in the animal kingdom! From weird penguin behavior to extraordinary cat quirks, explore these interesting facts about amazing species.

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People can be identified by their breathing patterns with 97% accuracy

Breathing patterns among humans are so unique that they can work as an identification tool, scientists report. They propose someday using breath as a way to diagnose disease.

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Scientists stunned to witness two injured deep-sea ‘jelly’ creatures fuse into one

Findings may lead to better understanding of how transplanted tissue integrates into body

The Independent UK

Linking two realms: efforts to tap real-life potential of lucid dreams advance

Scientists show it is possible to control a virtual car and switch on real-world kettle from inside a lucid dream

The Guardian - UK

Great white sharks split into 3 populations 200,000 years ago and never mixed again — except for one hybrid found in the Bermuda Triangle

Scientists found three distinct great-white-shark populations that congregate in different oceans and do not interbreed. Their separation may have implications for conservation.

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Mysterious plague is wiping out sea urchins across the globe, scientists say

Expert warns urchins vital to coral reef ecosystems now ‘functionally extinct’ in Red Sea

The Independent UK

Mummified skin from creature that lived 290 million years ago is older than the dinosaurs

Crocodile-like skin from a reptile is 130 million years older than the previous record for fossilized skin, researchers say.

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Study finds use of habitat for agricultural purposes puts primate in danger

According to a study published in Current Biology, frequent trips to oil palm farms are significantly increasing mortality rates among baby southern pig-tailed macaques (Macaca nemestrina) in the wild. Read further on Dynamite News:

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Human voices are scarier for animals in African savannah than a lion’s growl

‘The fear of humans is ingrained and pervasive,’ study co-author says

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'Picky' elephant learns how to peel her own bananas in amazing video

Asian elephant Pang Pha is not a fan of banana peels which have started to go brown, and has been seen throwing them to the floor to peel it away and get to the ripe fruit

Salon

The magic tricks for monkeys study

By attempting sleight-of-hand magic tricks on monkeys, scientists learned some interesting things about cognition

The Guardian - AU

‘Interspecies innovation arms race’: cockatoos and humans at war over wheelie bin raids

Research shows Sydney residents devising increasingly sophisticated ways to keep highly intelligent but ‘bloody annoying’ birds out of household waste

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This is your brain when you're burnt out

"Potentially toxic by-products of neural activity accumulate in the prefrontal cortex," one researcher says

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Woodpeckers peck unprotected: study

For years, researchers assumed woodpeckers had evolved natural shock absorbers to prevent brain damage. They hadn't

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Scientists finally discovered how whales eat without drowning

A paper published Thursday in the journal 'Current Biology' reveals the secret to how whales engulf colossal amounts of seawater while feeding and without drowning.

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