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Conor Feehly

(He/Him)
Auckland
As seen in: MSN, MSN Canada, MSN Ireland, MSN Singapore, MSN UK, Estadão, Yahoo News, Aol, New Scientist, Scientific American and
Covers:  Neuroscience, Psychology, Philosophy, Astrophysics, Biology, Archaeology, Geology
Science writer - @newscientist @sciam @QuantaMagazine @NoemaMag @SPACEdotcom @bigthink etc conor.feehly94@gmail.com

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Conor Feehly’s Biography

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Auckland based freelance science writer. Masters graduate from the Centre for Science Communication at Otago University.

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Headless? No hindrance...

Headless? No hindrance...

Move aside salamander, this sea slug is about to blow your regeneration powers out of the water. Scientists f…

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Brains Might Sync As People Interact - and That Could Upend Consciousness Research

Brains Might Sync As People Interact - and That Could Upend Consciousness Research

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New Study Reveals Intricate Chemical Link Between Rocky Planets And Their Stars

New Study Reveals Intricate Chemical Link Between Rocky Planets And Their Stars

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A New Framework for How the Brain Compresses Our Noisy World

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By Conor Feehly
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Every moment of our lives, our bodies are awash in sensory signals. Photons hit our retinas. Waves of compressed air collide with our eardrums. Volatile molecules bind to receptors in our nostrils, and chemicals slather our taste buds. Pressure and heat activate nerve endings in our skin. We are able to navigate this torrent because the brain does an enormous amount of data compression.
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How AI is revealing the hidden intelligence of plants and fungi

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By Conor Feehly
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Anthropology 2 hours ago Archaeologists Opened a 500-Year-Old King’s Tomb. Most Didn’t Live to Tell the Tale. Popular Mechanics - Tim Newcomb • 2h 15 people died after unsealing the tomb of Polish King Casimir IV Jagiellon, and the microscopic culprit is still among us.
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Consciousness may be more than the brain's output — it may be an input, too

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Frailty sets in far earlier than you’d expect, but you can reverse it If we live long enough, many of us will eventually start to exhibit telltale signs of frailty, from unsteady feet to mental confusion. Yet not all. …
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Neural Synchronisation