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Boston terrier wearing headphones listening to music. (Getty Images / retales botijero)

The animals that keep a beat

Elizabeth Hlavinka
A Pacific giant octopus crawls over a colorful anemone filled bottom. (Getty Images / Mauricio Handler)

Maybe don't anthropomorphize octopuses

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Baby boy having brain tested, Seattle, Washington. (Getty Images / Aaron MCcoy)

What's it like to be a baby?

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Woman walks through door into natural landscape collage (Getty Images/We Are)

How to navigate "magical overthinking"

Nicole Karlis
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How does your diet impact cognition?

Barbara Jacquelyn Sahakian, Christelle Langley, Jianfeng Feng, Wei Cheng - The Conversation
A Capuchin monkey rests on a tree branch in the Aurora Zoo in Guatemala. (Camilo Freedman/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

The magic tricks for monkeys study

Matthew Rozsa
Bonobo babies play with a mirror (Getty Images/ANDREYGUDKOV)

8 animals who pass the "mirror test"

Nicole Karlis
White Italian Greyhound puppy posing in front of a large mirror (Getty Images/Melissa Ross)

Can any animal pass the mirror test?

Nicole Karlis
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Billi The Cat (Photo courtesy of Kendra Baker)

Can Billi the talking cat really talk?

Nicole Karlis
Spiral staircase to St Stephen's Basilica dome, Budapest (Getty Images)

Why focusing on intent won't stop racism

Patricia Roberts-Miller
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Parrots teach themselves to dance: study

Nicole Karlis
"The Evolving Animal Orchestra: In Search of What Makes Us Musical" By Henkjan Honing (MIT Press/Getty/Robbie Ross)

Listening to music with rhesus monkeys

Henkjan Honing
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(Albert Einstein, 1921 Ferdinand Schmutzer via Wikimedia Commons)

Is it possible to boost

Giovanni Sala, Fernand Gobet - The Conversation
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Report: Your dog has your back

Joanna Rothkopf
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Jenny Kutner
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Sarah Gray

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Elizabeth Barber - Christian Science Monitor

Katie McDonough
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