What mice in VR goggles can tell us about our brains

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The view from inside a pair of VR goggles being worn by a mouse in a research lab shows multiple screens depicting an owl.
The view inside the VR goggles that the mice were wearing sometimes featured predators like owls.

Daniel Dombeck, Department of Neurobiology at Northwestern University

Senegalese herders have raised livestock for centuries. Climate change is threatening their future.

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Cattle gather around a small pond of water in Senegal.

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Large AI models can now create smaller AI tools without humans and train them like a 'big brother,' scientists say

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How elephants 'hear' with their feet, and how you can do it, too

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Elephants can use their feet to sense vibrations in the ground.

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Cats can play fetch like dogs but probably not for the same reasons

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Researchers found some cats like to play fetch, if their owners abide by their rules.

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The most powerful solar eruption in years fired a powerful 'X-class' solar flare that just hit Earth, and scientists are monitoring for more possible outbursts

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The sun is growing more active.

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The world's first human brain-scale supercomputer will go live next year

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A doctor who helped collect hundreds of unauthorized remains for the Smithsonian in the early 1900s disproportionately took the brains of Black people: report

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A Paleontology collection at the Smithsonian.

Chip Clark

Jeff Bezos says humans will live in massive space stations before settling on other planets, once again veering away from Elon Musk's Mars ambitions

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Jeff Bezos puts on googles that belonged to aviator Amelia Mar Earhart.

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This is what happens to space tomatoes that get lost on the International Space Station for 8 months

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Two space-grown tomatoes were found earlier this month eight months after they disappeared on the International Space Station.

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