One of the most remarkable characteristics of the vertebrate eye is its retina. Surprisingly, the sensitive portions of the photoreceptor cells are found on the hind side of the retina, meaning that light needs to travel ...
Biotechnology
Feb 25, 2020
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Researchers at UW Medicine have decoded what makes good lighting—lighting capable of stimulating the cone photoreceptor inputs to specific neurons in the eye that regulate circadian rhythms.
Molecular & Computational biology
Feb 20, 2020
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University of Central Florida researchers are helping to close the gap separating human and machine minds.
Nanophysics
Feb 14, 2020
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A team of scientists from the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University has gained insight into how electric fields affect the way energy from light drives molecular motion and transformation ...
Biochemistry
Feb 13, 2020
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NASA is pulling the plug on one of its great observatories—the Spitzer Space Telescope—after 16 years of scanning the universe with infrared eyes.
Space Exploration
Jan 29, 2020
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Dragonflies and damselflies are animals that may appear gentle but are, in fact, ancient hunters. The closely related insects shared an ancestor over 250 million years ago—long before dinosaurs—and provide a glimpse into ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 16, 2020
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Most animals need to move, whether this is to seek out food, shelter or a mate. New research has shown that movement doesn't always break camouflage and if an animal needs to move, animals that are unpatterned and use short, ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 15, 2020
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Columbia scientists have identified a brain circuit that drives fruit flies' ability to see in color—and found that it bears a striking resemblance to the circuitry behind our own capacity for color vision. These findings ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Jan 9, 2020
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Vision is a crucial sense for most animals, and vertebrates have evolved a highly adaptable set of opsin genes that generate light-sensitive pigments to decode the retinal image. These opsins include a rod opsin to help see ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 9, 2020
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Researchers at the University of New Hampshire have reported the first structural model for a key enzyme, and its activating protein, that can play a role in some genetically inherited eye diseases like retinitis pigmentosa ...
Biochemistry
Jan 8, 2020
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