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When Life Flashes Before Your Eyes: A 15-Story Drop to Study the Brain's...
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Neural Networks Designed to 'See' are Quite Good at 'Hearing' As Well
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Baby Chicks Reject Escher-esque Impossible Shapes
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The Science of Gaydar: How Ovulation and Sexy Stories Sharpen Sexual Perception
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Things We Can Learn From Dolphins: Electro-Sensing, Amazing Powers of Healing
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PR2 Robot Learns to Scoop Up Distasteful Matter
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Study: If You Hate Someone, Your Brain Sees Them Differently
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Furry Racism At The Pound: Why Is It Harder For Black Cats To Find Homes?
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Kids Are Still Drawing 1900s Idea Of What Dinosaurs Looked Like
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The Science Of 'Zero Dark Thirty': When We Can Condone Torture
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The World Looks Bigger Through A Virtual Child's Eyes
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Anxious People Prefer More Personal Space
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The Mind-Bending Science Of James Turrell's Art
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The roboticists at the University of Pennsylvania’s GRASP Lab have done some truly great things, from flying tricks with aerobatic quadcopters to programming their PR2 to read. And now this: PR2 as...
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