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Planet Earth

MDMA Makes Octopuses Want to Mingle, Too

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A Parasite In Cat Poo Could Push People To Take Risks

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Researchers Get a Peek at How Other Animals See the World

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Found: The Genes Behind Big Human Brains

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What Magnetic Fields Do to Your Brain and Body

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Why Are Our Brains So Big, Anyway?

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Getting Inside The Head Of Homo Naledi

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Let's Journey Through the Mind of a Dog

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Mind

Theoretically, Recording Dreams Is Possible — Scientists Are Trying

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Health

This Optical Illusion Could Help to Diagnose Autism

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The Sciences

Can Quantum Physics Explain Consciousness? One Scientist Thinks It Might

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发现：导致人类大脑巨大的基因

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