This week, we reported on the difficulty humans experience trying to read their dogs’ emotions. Researchers reported that male blue-lined octopuses paralyze females before mating with them to avoid being eaten. And physicists demonstrated quantum advantage with a simple cooperation game. Additionally, galaxies prefer to spin clockwise, apparently; researchers found the oldest face bones of an early human; and a play intervention reduces stress markers in both humans and dogs.
Saturday Citations: A baffling discovery from Webb; the face of an early human; humans and dogs like to chill together
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