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Verse by verse, whales learn songs like humans

Humpback whales learn songs in segments – like the verses of a human song – and can remix them, a new study involving University of Queensland research has found.
The human ‘mind meld’: Our brains synchronize when we converse with another person

Having a conversation causes the brains of the participants to begin to work simultaneously, researchers have found.

Researchers analyzed the brain activity of two strangers who had a conversation for the first time, finding that the movement of their brain waves took place at the same time.
Your eardrums move in sync with your eyes but we don’t know why

See, hear. Our eardrums appear to move to shift our hearing in the same direction as our eyes are looking. Why this happens is unclear, but it may help us work out which objects we see are responsible for the sounds we can hear.