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Learn about why you have false memories of doing daily tasks; how we know that dogs might be able to sense Earth’s magnetic field via magnetoreception; and the science behind why there’s no up or down in space. Science confirms we create false memories of doing daily tasks by Steffie Drucker Paper: Mundane behavioral decisions, actions can be “misremembered” as done. (2020). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-07/uoia-pmb071720.php  Albarracin, D., Sunderrajan, A., McCulloch, K. C., & Jones, C. (2020). Mistaking an Intention for a Behavior: The Case of Enacting Behavioral Decisions Versus Simply Intending to Enact Them. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 014616722092920. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167220929203  Dogs might be able to sense Earth’s magnetic field by Cameron Duke Benediktová, K., Adámková, J., Svoboda, J., Painter, M. S., Bartoš, L., Nováková, P., Vynikalová, L., Hart, V., Phillips, J., & Burda, H. (2020). Magnetic alignment enhances homing efficiency of hunting dogs. ELife, 9, e55080. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.55080  Frankel, R. (2014, May 18). Dogs at War: Three-Legged Dog Delivers Crucial Message in WWI. Nationalgeographic.com. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/5/140516-dogs-war-canines-soldiers-troops-army-military/  Hart, V., Nováková, P., Malkemper, E. P., Begall, S., Hanzal, V., Ježek, M., Kušta, T., Němcová, V., Adámková, J., Benediktová, K., Červený, J., & Burda, H. (2013). Dogs are sensitive to small variations of the Earth’s magnetic field. Frontiers in Zoology, 10(1), 80. https://doi.org/10.1186/1742-9994-10-80  Yirka, B. (2020, July 20). Dogs may use Earth’s magnetic field to navigate. Phys.org. https://phys.org/news/2020-07-dogs-earth-magnetic-field.html  In Outer Space, There Is No Up or Down by Joanie Faletto Saadeh, D., Feeney, S. M., Pontzen, A., Peiris, H. V., & McEwen, J. D. (2016). How Isotropic is the Universe? Physical Review Letters, 117(13). https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.117.131302  in. (2016, September 7). It’s official: You’re lost in a directionless universe. Science | AAAS. https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/09/it-s-official-you-re-lost-directionless-universe  Subscribe to Curiosity Daily to learn something new every day with Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer. You can also listen to our podcast as part of your Alexa Flash Briefing; Amazon smart speakers users, click/tap “enable” here: https://www.amazon.com/Curiosity-com-Curiosity-Daily-from/dp/B07CP17DJY See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information.