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  "id": 223074,
  "title": "How Does Touch Lead To Pain Or Pleasure?",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/06/how-does-touch-lead-to-pain-or-pleasure",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-08-06T13:37:48.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Quanta Magazine",
    "slug": "quanta-magazine",
    "url": "https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-does-touch-lead-to-pain-or-pleasure-20260806/"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Neuroscientist Ishmail Abdus-Saboor discusses efforts to understand how skin contact can be painful or pleasurable, and what touch-obsessed naked mole rats might teach us about human social behavior. The post How Does Touch Lead To Pain Or Pleasure? first appeared on Quanta Magazine",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}