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In a study now published in iScience, researchers from the University of Vienna (Austria), National Institute of Technology - Wakayama College (NITW; Japan), and Shimane University (Japan) present the ...

Some species of octopus have adapted to living in icy polar waters that might otherwise cause their nerves to malfunction. But that adaptation has come without any obvious changes in the underlying ...

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