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Mice’s facial expressions can reveal a wide range of emotions
Pleasure, pain, fear and other feelings can be reflected in mice’s faces, sophisticated computational analyses show.
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Health & MedicineHow one woman became the exception to her family’s Alzheimer’s history
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NeuroscienceMice watching film noir show the surprising complexity of vision cells
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