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Bender from Futurama

Team claims human-level AI is impossible — ever

An illustration depicting a human brain with colorful, pulsating waves emanating from different regions

Bursts of Beta Rhythms in the Brain Hold the Key to Understanding Cognition, Scientists Argue

Woman with cup of thick cocoa

Cocoa extract supplement found to have benefits for cognition among older adults with lower diet quality

Learning about objects: the treat is always only on the white plate or only on the black plate, the other is empty.

The way dogs see the world: Objects are more salient to smarter dogs

girl playing soccer/futbal

Physical fitness since childhood predicts cerebellar volume in adolescence

Octopuses are mollusks, a large evolutionary group to which slugs and snails also belong. Their complex brains, and those of other closely-related cephalopods, like squid and cuttlefish, have evolved separately from vertebrates, and so octopuses are often referred to as alien-like. Here, a day octopus (Octopus cyanea) poses with a Shisa, a creature from Okinawan folklore.

Scientists record first-ever brain waves from freely moving octopuses

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