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A siphonophore—a colonial marine invertebrate related to the venomous stinging Portuguese Man-o-war—is scanned using Deep ...

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Teetering near endangered status, the starlet sea anemone produces “an ancient mechanism” for fighting viruses that ...

In a new paper, researchers examine the possibility of other consciousnesses that take on forms far beyond our imagination.