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This creature can change color 177 times in one hour – evolution went too far

The octopus is one of the strangest animals ever to evolve. With 500 million neurons—most of them located in its eight arms ...

A Sea Anemone Uses CARDIB to Fight Viruses—and It’s Even More Bizarre Than It Sounds

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

BT21 Toys Teases Coming To McDonald’s Happy Meals On July 14

BTS's LINE FRIENDS characters are coming to a McDonald's Happy Meal near you on July 14. McDonald's released a teaser ...

How to invade planet Earth: An alien's guide to bringing the human race to its knees

From "Independence Day" to "Invasion of the Body Snatchers", movies and TV shows are packed with advice for anyone aspiring ...

Project Hail Mary OTT Release: When And Where To Watch Ryan Gosling-Starrer Space Drama

Ryan Gosling’s sci-fi hit Project Hail Mary is set to stream on Prime Video on July 3. The Phil Lord and Christopher Miller ...

Fantasia’s 30th Edition Will Open with Nicolas Winding Refn’s ‘Her Private Hell’ — Final Lineup

Exclusive: IndieWire unveils the massive third wave of genre programming coming to Montreal July 16 to August 2.
Knowing Neurons

The Neuroscience of Octopuses: Why People Think They’re Aliens (And Why They’re Not)

The idea that octopuses might be aliens emerged from the theory of panspermia (Stelele 2018), according to which life on Earth is not entirely of terrestrial ...