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  1. Whiffs of Perception: Sniffing activates the mind’s nose

    People spontaneously sniff while imagining various smells, an act that intensifies odor perception.

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  2. Physics

    Humpty-Dumpty Effect: Acoustically, people resemble large eggs

    The first measurements of how people intrinsically scatter sound waves indicate that, acoustically, a human body resembles a hard ellipsoid of the same height and girth as the person.

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  3. Paleontology

    Northern Extinction: Alaskan horses shrank, then disappeared

    Horses that lived in Alaska shrank dramatically in body size before they went extinct at the end of the last ice age.

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  4. Astronomy

    Sound of the fury

    On Oct.