Echo templates aid mental mapping in bats
A study published in eLife provides new insights on how bats recognise their surroundings to help them build mental maps.
A study published in eLife provides new insights on how bats recognise their surroundings to help them build mental maps.
Plants & Animals
Aug 2, 2016
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A Franco-Japanese research group at the University of Tokyo has developed a new "brute force" technique to test thousands of biochemical reactions at once and quickly home in on the range of conditions where they work best. ...
Materials Science
Jun 20, 2016
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You might start seeing more ads when getting directions from Google's popular mapping service.
Internet
May 24, 2016
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The science team leading NASA's New Horizons mission that unveiled the true nature of Pluto's long hidden looks during the history making maiden close encounter last July, have published a fresh global map that offers the ...
Space Exploration
May 2, 2016
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ESA's Herschel mission releases today a series of unprecedented maps of star-forming hubs in the plane of our Milky Way galaxy. This is accompanied by a set of catalogues of hundreds of thousands of compact sources that span ...
Astronomy
Apr 22, 2016
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Many large glaciers in Greenland are at greater risk of melting from below than previously thought, according to new maps of the seafloor around Greenland created by an international research team. Like other recent research ...
Earth Sciences
Apr 22, 2016
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The IBM lab responsible for inventing the scanning tunneling microscope and the atomic force microscope has invented another critical tool for helping us understand the nanoworld.
Nanophysics
Mar 4, 2016
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How to make sense of Pluto's surprising geological complexity? To help understand the diversity of terrain and to piece together how Pluto's surface has formed and evolved over time, mission scientists construct geological ...
Space Exploration
Feb 15, 2016
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Forty years of mountaintop coal mining have made parts of Central Appalachia 60 percent flatter than they were before excavation, says new research by Duke University.
Environment
Feb 5, 2016
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Data from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft point to more prevalent water ice on Pluto's surface than previously thought.
Space Exploration
Jan 29, 2016
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