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The ‘sea-nomad’ children who see like dolphins
Unlike most people, the children of a Thailand tribe see with total clarity beneath the waves – how do they do it, and might their talent be learned? By Helen Thomson.
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Ever seen a ghost? Blame glitches in your brain, say team of Chinese neurologists citing Pinna illusion tests
Researchers find brain still has ‘bugs’ despite millions of years of evolution. By Stephen Chen.
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Rats learn to sense infrared in hours thanks to brain implants
Rat brains quickly adapted to use data from four infrared sensors, allowing them to "see" in the dark and paving the way for augmenting the human brain. By Andy Coghlan.
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Do we see reality as it is?
Cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman is trying to answer a big question: Do we experience the world as it really is ... or as we need it to be? In this ever so slightly mind-blowing talk, he ponders how our minds construct reality for us.
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The 19th Century Doctor Who Mapped His Hallucinations
Hubert Airy’s drawings anticipated discoveries in neuroscience that were still decades in the future. By Betsy Mason and Greg Miller.
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A Bird’s-Eye View of Nature’s Hidden Order
Scientists are exploring a mysterious pattern, found in birds’ eyes, boxes of marbles and other surprising places, that is neither regular nor random. By Natalie Wolchover.
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Lightman Fantastic
This Artist Drenched ’60s Music Lovers in a Psychedelic Dream. By Ben Marks.
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People can sense single photons
Experiment suggests that humans are capable of perceiving even the feeblest flash of light. By Davide Castelvecchi.
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Evolution favors the bioluminescent
You glow, you win—the power to emit light has evolved a whopping 27 times. By Annalee Newitz. (June 15, 2016)
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What's It Like to See Ideas as Shapes?
Thoughts and feelings are constellations in the mind of a man with a rare form of synesthesia. By Alissa Greenberg.
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The Panopticons are coming! And they’ll know when we think the grass is greener
Eye-tracking technology helps us understand how people interact with their environment. This can improve policy and design, but can also be a tool for surveillance and control.
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Cannabis may enhance night vision
New research shows that the drug makes cells in the retina more sensitive to light.
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Plants ‘see’ underground by channelling light to their roots
Roots of many plants have light receptors, and now we may have discovered why. They seem to channel light underground using stems as fibre-optic cables. By Alice Klein.
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Breakthrough as gene-editing technique restores sight to blind animals
Study first to show gene-editing tool Crispr can replace faulty genes within adult cells - and in future could be applied to range of devastating genetic diseases. By Hannah Devlin.
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The Transcendental Face of Art
On John Berger, a writer of our time. By Joshua Sperling.
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Robert Cumming Invents the Photograph
Constructing sets that look functional but are intentionally useless, an artist parodies the seamless illusion of images. By Sarah Bay Gachot.
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World’s Blackest Material Now Comes in a Spray Can
Vantablack is now available in a spray-on form that blocks 99.8 percent of ultraviolet, visible and infrared light — enough to make an otherwise detailed 3D object appear as a flat black void. By Kacey Deamer. (Apr. 5, 2017)
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The woman with a strange ‘second sight’
A blind woman describes how she learnt she had one of the world’s most intriguing senses.
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I've always wondered: why don't chickens look down when they scratch?
Chicken eyes are stranger than you think: they can look up and down at the same time.
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Brain stimulation causes man to hallucinate phantom faces on everyday objects
The man's brain was wired with 188 electrodes from a previous medical procedure, allowing researchers to pinpoint areas responsible for face recognition. By Joseph Frankel. (Nov. 7, 2017) [Autoplay]
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