Acrobatic Octopus Arm Could Be Model for Flexible Robots
Though coordinating eight separate arms might seem a tricky task for an octopus brain, what’s really demanding is controlling the arms’ flexible, infinitely variable movements. Now researchers have...
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The kicks and somersaults of a developing baby aren’t the only in-utero calisthenics. Babies also flex their mental muscles months before birth. Nerve cells from developing brains as young as 20 weeks...
View ArticlePrimal Propensity for Disgust Shapes Political Positions
Conservatives and liberals appear to have different capacities for disgust, one of the most fundamental human emotions. Does this mean partisan divides are intractably biological? Actually, it could...
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Instant messages are ubiquitous and convenient, but something primal may be lost in translation.
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