Does a blind person reading Braille process words in the brain differently than a person who reads by sight?
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Feed SubscriptionTortoises to the Rescue: Rewilding to Repair Ecological Damage
Europeans ate their way through the island nation of Mauritius, most famously eliminating the dodo bird by 1700.
Read More »Fascinated by Fear
One of the few exceptions to the old saying “everybody is afraid of something” is a 44-year-old woman known to psychologists as patient SM.
Read More »Multiple Mutations May Be Common
In a point mutation, a single letter of the genetic code changes to another letter. When a protein gets made from that new code, it’ll be slightly different from usual. But new research finds that it may be fairly common for multiple mutations to happen in DNA simultaneously
Read More »Box Jellyfish Eyes Aim At The Trees
Box jellyfish have it over the rest of the jellyfish world--they have true eyes, featuring corneas, lenses and retinas. They have a more sophisticated nervous system too
Read More »Blind Fish Sleep Less, Forage More
Creatures that live in the dark may lose their sight over evolutionary time. They may even lose their eyes entirely. Now it appears that they also lose sleep
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