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Scientists Tracked Earth's Magnetic Field While Dogs Pooped – And Noticed Something Very StrangeA dog squatting

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Scientists Tracked Earth's Magnetic Field While Dogs Pooped – And Noticed Something Very StrangeA dog squatting
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Scientists Tracked Earth's Magnetic Field While Dogs Pooped – And Noticed Something Very Strange

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How Many Senses Do Humans Have? It Could Be As Many As 33A hand lightly touches vibrant green grass in a sunlit field.

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How Many Senses Do Humans Have? It Could Be As Many As 33A hand lightly touches vibrant green grass in a sunlit field.
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How Many Senses Do Humans Have? It Could Be As Many As 33

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Why Do Warm Hugs Make Us Feel So Good? Here’s The Sciencetwo friends hugging at sunset

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Why Do Warm Hugs Make Us Feel So Good? Here’s The Sciencetwo friends hugging at sunset
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Why Do Warm Hugs Make Us Feel So Good? Here’s The Science

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We Finally Understand Why We “Feel” It When We See Someone Get Hurtyoung woman pictured from behind holding her hands to her head while she watches a movie on TV, the lighting is dark with red and purple. There's a bowl of popcorn on the table in front of her. She has two braids in her hair and is wearing dungarees and a polka dot t-shirt.

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We Finally Understand Why We “Feel” It When We See Someone Get Hurtyoung woman pictured from behind holding her hands to her head while she watches a movie on TV, the lighting is dark with red and purple. There's a bowl of popcorn on the table in front of her. She has two braids in her hair and is wearing dungarees and a polka dot t-shirt.
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We Finally Understand Why We “Feel” It When We See Someone Get Hurt

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Humans Have A "Seventh Sense" That Lets You Touch Things From A Distancethree handprints in the sand; two are adult-sized, the other child-sized

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Humans Have A "Seventh Sense" That Lets You Touch Things From A Distancethree handprints in the sand; two are adult-sized, the other child-sized
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Humans Have A "Seventh Sense" That Lets You Touch Things From A Distance

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Humans' Hidden "Sixth Sense" To Be Mapped Following $14.2 Million Prize – What Is Interoception?Woman with eyes closed and a glowing brain

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Humans' Hidden "Sixth Sense" To Be Mapped Following $14.2 Million Prize – What Is Interoception?Woman with eyes closed and a glowing brain
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Humans' Hidden "Sixth Sense" To Be Mapped Following $14.2 Million Prize – What Is Interoception?

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Just How Many "Sixth Senses" Do We Have, Anyway?colourful microscope image of sensory neurons; yellow and red strands across a black background with blue orbs on top

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Just How Many "Sixth Senses" Do We Have, Anyway?colourful microscope image of sensory neurons; yellow and red strands across a black background with blue orbs on top
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Just How Many "Sixth Senses" Do We Have, Anyway?

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You Don’t Have 5 Senses, You Have Way More Than ThatA photo showing five circular disk set up in a row, with another being position above them. The five in a row represent the senses, and include an image of a hand for "touch", an er for "hearing", an eye for "sight", a mouth for "taste" and a nose for "smell". Above them, the last disk has the words "Sense Organs" written on it. It is being held in place by two fingers.

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You Don’t Have 5 Senses, You Have Way More Than ThatA photo showing five circular disk set up in a row, with another being position above them. The five in a row represent the senses, and include an image of a hand for "touch", an er for "hearing", an eye for "sight", a mouth for "taste" and a nose for "smell". Above them, the last disk has the words "Sense Organs" written on it. It is being held in place by two fingers.
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You Don’t Have 5 Senses, You Have Way More Than That

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A "New Color?" Scientists Claim "Olo" Is Like Nothing You've Ever Seen BeforeA man's face and eye upclose, under a bright blue teal light.

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A "New Color?" Scientists Claim "Olo" Is Like Nothing You've Ever Seen BeforeA man's face and eye upclose, under a bright blue teal light.
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A "New Color?" Scientists Claim "Olo" Is Like Nothing You've Ever Seen Before

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Sense Of Touch In Bionic Arm Hits “Another Level” Through Cutting-Edge Brain StimulationAn illustration showing a paralyzed individual with a spinal cord injury, implanted with intracortical electrodes in the brain. This brain-computer interface (BCI) allows the individual to control a bionic limb that is not attached to the body, directly with thoughts, to reach and grasp a coffee mug. Due to embedded sensors, the bionic hand senses the grasped object as if it were being grasped with the human hand, communicating the touch sensations to the user’s brain via advanced neurostimulation.

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Sense Of Touch In Bionic Arm Hits “Another Level” Through Cutting-Edge Brain StimulationAn illustration showing a paralyzed individual with a spinal cord injury, implanted with intracortical electrodes in the brain. This brain-computer interface (BCI) allows the individual to control a bionic limb that is not attached to the body, directly with thoughts, to reach and grasp a coffee mug. Due to embedded sensors, the bionic hand senses the grasped object as if it were being grasped with the human hand, communicating the touch sensations to the user’s brain via advanced neurostimulation.
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Sense Of Touch In Bionic Arm Hits “Another Level” Through Cutting-Edge Brain Stimulation

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New Temperature-Sensing Prosthetic Limb Helps Users Feel A Human Touchmetal cubes on blue and red backgrounds on a table; view of man's prosthetic hand with black device wired across the back of the hand and over the index and middle fingers

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New Temperature-Sensing Prosthetic Limb Helps Users Feel A Human Touchmetal cubes on blue and red backgrounds on a table; view of man's prosthetic hand with black device wired across the back of the hand and over the index and middle fingers
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New Temperature-Sensing Prosthetic Limb Helps Users Feel A Human Touch

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The Way You See Colors Changes As You Age, But Not All Colors Are AffectedFour older people, a man and three women, stand in a line and are posing and leaning on one another. They are all dressed in colourful eccentric clothing and the background is divided between yellow (on the left) and red (on the right).

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The Way You See Colors Changes As You Age, But Not All Colors Are AffectedFour older people, a man and three women, stand in a line and are posing and leaning on one another. They are all dressed in colourful eccentric clothing and the background is divided between yellow (on the left) and red (on the right).
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The Way You See Colors Changes As You Age, But Not All Colors Are Affected

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Sensory Deprivation Tanks: Do They Have Any Benefit To The Body Or Mind?black and white image of male figure floating in water

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Sensory Deprivation Tanks: Do They Have Any Benefit To The Body Or Mind?black and white image of male figure floating in water
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Sensory Deprivation Tanks: Do They Have Any Benefit To The Body Or Mind?

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What Happens To Your Brain Under Sensory Deprivation?cartoon depictions of two females stood back to back, one wearing white headphones, the other wearing a white blindfold, against a blue background

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What Happens To Your Brain Under Sensory Deprivation?cartoon depictions of two females stood back to back, one wearing white headphones, the other wearing a white blindfold, against a blue background
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What Happens To Your Brain Under Sensory Deprivation?

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Each Nostril Has Its Own Distinct Sense Of SmellNostrils

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Each Nostril Has Its Own Distinct Sense Of SmellNostrils
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Each Nostril Has Its Own Distinct Sense Of Smell

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