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The Fish That Outsmarts Sound: How Danionella cerebrum Hears What Humans Can’t


Researchers at Charité have solved the puzzle of directional hearing underwater. When underwater, humans cannot determine where a sound comes from. Sound travels about five times faster there than on land. That makes directional hearing, or sound localization, nearly impossible because the human br

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