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Weekly: How to measure consciousness; Nature-made graphene; New sabretooth cats

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The Evolution of Saber Tooth Cats

Scientists are still unraveling how saber tooth cats went extinct. There's a chance that humans hunted them and that may have played a role in their ultimate demise. Do we have any evidence that they also liked to sit on our keyboards while we were trying to work? We did live at the same time as them possibly. I was just wondering if saber tooth could purr. I mean we know many big cats can't.

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