A trio of biologists, two with the University of Fribourg, in Switzerland, the third with Universitat de Barcelona, in Spain, has found that a type of Cnidaria is capable of associative learning. Gaelle Botton-Amiot, Simon ...
Japanese honeybees face a formidable foe in the Asian giant hornet, a fierce predator that can reach 40mm long or larger, but the bees have developed a novel defense mechanism: they create a "hot defensive bee ball," swarming ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 14, 2012
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Scientists from the University of Southampton have developed a device which records the brain activity of worms to help test the effects of drugs.
Cell & Microbiology
May 22, 2013
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As they annoyingly buzz around a batch of bananas in our kitchens, fruit flies appear to have little in common with mammals. But as a model species for science, researchers are discovering increasing similarities between ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 17, 2022
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Science fiction has long described sophisticated technology that can temporarily put humans into a suspended state, permitting characters to awaken far into the future, often after extended journeys through space. In reality, ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 20, 2023
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Moths need just the essence of a flower's scent to identify it, according to new research from The University of Arizona in Tucson.
Plants & Animals
Mar 5, 2009
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(Phys.org) —A team of researchers in Italy has successfully demonstrated a means for restoring light sensitivity to a damaged rat retina by incorporating an inorganic polymer with nerve cells. In their paper published in ...
A new tool for neuroscientists delivers a thousand pinpricks of light to a chunk of gray matter smaller than a sugar cube. The new fiber-optic device, created by biologists and engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of ...
Optics & Photonics
Nov 19, 2012
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Studies have indicated that insects rely on their brains to respond to what they feel and see. But for the first time, researchers have shown a direct link between neurons at the center of an insect brain and changes in behavior. ...
Plants & Animals
May 6, 2010
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University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers have conducted a study that provides new insights on users' susceptibility to, and capability to detect, cyber-criminal attacks such as malware and phishing attacks.
Security
Oct 23, 2015
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