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Instead, by using a new technique that allowed them to peer into the inner workings of a language model, they observed Claude ...

Research on neuroprotective mechanisms aims to understand how the nervous system is protected from injury or degeneration. These studies commonly use animal ...

The new research showed that both chimpanzees and Neanderthals had larger, faster-growing faces, while modern humans have ...

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The trial was part of a small — but growing — group of animal-to-human organ transplants, in a practice known as ...

Leibniz Institute for Primate Research and the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics have discovered ...

Often compared to a computer, the body's most complex organ operates using a code of electrical and chemical signals. These signals transmit through wires, nodes and networks to process and store ...

Here are some examples of animals that may have consciousness: For years, researchers have used the mirror test to determine ...

Filter-feeding fish ingest a deadly algal neurotoxin called domoic acid and are then eaten by sea lions, seals and dolphins.