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The joy of playing hide-and-seek with rats
Playing hide-and-seek with lab rats has shown scientists that joy can be a great motivator for learning and social interaction – and not just for rats.
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The seizure dog
Aparna Nair's dog Charlie made her feel safe in the world. His uncanny ability to sense when she was about to experience a seizure also gave her an unexpected ally in her struggles with epilepsy.
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The science of why things spread
From deadly pandemics to viral tweets, Adam Kucharski explores what makes something contagious.
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Doctors and the English seaside
Fashionable seaside towns in England owe much of their popularity to 18th-century doctors, who advised them to take the 'sea cure'.
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Jumping spider (Hentzia)
Macroscopic Solutions
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Jumping spider (unknown species)
Macroscopic Solutions
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Jumping spider (Phidippus audax)
Macroscopic Solutions- Archives and manuscripts
'Literature: Penguins, Jumping Wabeen'
Date: c.1970-1977Reference: PP/AMO/C/2/9Part of: Amoroso, Professor Emmanuel Ciprian CBE, FRCP, FRS (1901-1982)
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A kangaroo jumping. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
Muybridge, Eadweard, 1830-1904.Date: 1887Reference: 2015324iPart of: Animal locomotion: an electro-photographic investigation of consecutive phases of animal movements