News tagged with sensory environment

Astronaut balancing act: Training to help explorers adapt to a return to gravity

Astronauts returning from challenging long-duration missions face one more challenge when they get back to Earth - standing up and walking.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

New approach to dental visits may ease kids' fears

For many children, a trip to the doctor or dentist is a stressful experience. The sensory environment (i.e., the sounds, smells, and lights associated with the clinical setting) can cause a child's anxiety levels to rise. ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0




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Got nectar? To hawkmoths, humidity is a cue

(Phys.org) -- Humidity emanating from a flower's nectar stores tells a moth if the flower is worth a visit, research led by a UA entomologist has discovered.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 30, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Food, water safety provide new challenges for today's sensors

Sensors that work flawlessly in laboratory settings may stumble when it comes to performing in real-world conditions, according to researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Technology / Engineering

created May 24, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

How the worm knows where its nose is

For decades, scientists have studied Caenorhabditis elegans – tiny, transparent worms – to glean clues about how neurons develop and function. A new Harvard study suggests that the worms' nervous system is much m ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Simplicity and quantum complexity

Simulations of reality would require less memory on a quantum computer than on a classical computer, new research from scientists at the University of Bristol, published in Nature Communications, has shown.

Physics / Quantum Physics

created May 04, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 11 | with audio podcast

Connecting cilia: Cellular antennae help cells stick together

Primary cilia are hair-like structures which protrude from almost all mammalian cells. They are thought to be sensory and involved in sampling the cell's environment. New research, published in BioMed Central's open access ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 24, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Controlling the cut: Engineers top the leader board

A high-tech, precision, water jet milling control system which could transform the manufacture of complex aerospace, optical and biomedical structures and devices is being developed by an international team of engineers led ...

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 11, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Computer scientists form mathematical formulation of the brain's neural networks

As computer scientists this year celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of the mathematical genius Alan Turing, who set out the basis for digital computing in the 1930s to anticipate the electronic age, they still quest ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Apr 02, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (19) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

Researchers replicate slime mold with brainless amoeboid robot that can move toward an attractant

(PhysOrg.com) -- Takuya Umedachi has been working for several years to build a robot that can replicate the simple actions of the common slime mold, an organism that can move towards something it desires without ...

Electronics / Robotics

created Mar 14, 2012 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 4 | with audio podcast weblog

Researcher uses medical imaging technology to better understand fish senses

University of Rhode Island marine biologist Jacqueline Webb gets an occasional strange look when she brings fish to the Orthopedics Research Lab at Rhode Island Hospital. While the facility's microCT scanner is typically ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Mar 12, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Ants can learn vibrational and magnetic landmarks

(PhysOrg.com) -- Foraging desert ants always find their way back to the nest, even when it is only marked by a magnetic cue, vibration, or carbon dioxide.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Mar 07, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast


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