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If You’ve Ever Heard a Voice That Wasn’t There, This Could Be Why

With a ghostly finger in a lab, researchers coaxed people to hear phantom voices.

What Benjamin Franklin Learned While Fighting Counterfeiters

Long before there were Benjamins in circulation, the founding father was all about experimenting with printing techniques as he worked on securing colonial printed currency.

Carnivorous Plants Use a Smelly Trick to Catch Their Prey

A study suggests that pitcher plants tailor the smells they produce to woo particular kinds of insects.

Outsiders Solve Problems. Just Ask Goats.

In a study of how animals respond to the unknown, goats and camels, especially those with a lower social position, proved most capable of liberating...

A Link Between Hearing Voices and Hearing Your Own Voice

An experiment with bone-conduction headphones suggests a way for neuroscientists to better understand some hallucinations.

How See-Through Glass Frogs Hide Their Red Blood From Predators

The glass frog’s unusual adaptation to bolster its camouflage could offer clues for preventing deadly blood clots in people.

Does Your Nose Help Pick Your Friends?

In a small study, researchers in an olfaction lab found that people who had an instant personal connection also had similarities in their body odors.

Megalodon Extinction May Have Been Driven by Hungry Great White Sharks

The largest shark that ever lived may have vanished in part because the comparatively smaller great white had a taste for the same prey.

There’s an Animal That Walks on Three Limbs. It’s a Parrot.

Lovebirds — and perhaps other species — seem to confound nature’s strong preference for bilateral bodies.
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