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nervous system

  • Scientists recently found a way to drive a cockroach the way you might drive a car. They put electrodes in its brain, and by stimulating it in the right places they could move it around like a car.
  • The all-too familiar American cockroach almost seems to know where you're going to strike. What's the tip-off that sends the cockroach running?