Feel your pain? Even fish can show they care
Our capacity to care about others may have very, very ancient origins, a new study suggests.
Plants & Animals
Mar 23, 2023
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News tagged with neural circuits
Researchers identify the neurons that synchronize female preferences with male courtship songs in fruit flies
When it comes to courtship, it is important to ensure that one is interacting with a member of the same species. Animals use multiple sensory systems to confirm that potential mates are indeed suitable, with acoustic communication ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 3, 2023
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Team develops method for neural net computing in water
Microprocessors in smartphones, computers, and data centers process information by manipulating electrons through solid semiconductors, but our brains have a different system. They rely on the manipulation of ions in liquid ...
Materials Science
Sep 29, 2022
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Molecular atlas of an Australian dragon's brain sheds new light on more than 300 million years of brain evolution
These days, dragons are keeping "Game of Thrones" fans on their toes. But they are also providing important insights into vertebrate brain evolution, as revealed by the work of Max Planck scientists on the brain of the Australian ...
Evolution
Sep 2, 2022
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Using new technique, researchers make surprising discoveries about how flies' brains respond to tastes
Taste matters to fruit flies, just as it does to humans: like people, the flies tend to seek out and consume sweet-tasting foods and reject foods that taste bitter. However, little is known about how sweet and bitter tastes ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 22, 2022
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How bat brains listen for incoming signals during echolocation
Neuroscientists at Goethe University, Frankfurt have discovered a feedback loop that modulates the receptivity of the auditory cortex to incoming acoustic signals when bats emit echolocation calls. In a study published in ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 3, 2022
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Scientists develop blueprint for turning stem cells into sensory interneurons
Researchers at the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCLA have developed a first-of-its-kind roadmap detailing how stem cells become sensory interneurons—the cells that enable ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 20, 2022
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Transmission photometry for simultaneous optogenetic stimulation and multi-color neuronal activity recording
A new publication from Opto-Electronic Advances discusses all-fiber transmission photometry for simultaneous optogenetic stimulation and multi-color neuronal activity recording.
Optics & Photonics
Jun 22, 2022
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How mice choose the best escape route
Escaping imminent danger is essential for survival. Animals must learn a new environment fast enough for them to be able to choose the shortest route to safety. But how do they do this without ever having experienced threat ...
Plants & Animals
May 25, 2022
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Inferring the size of a collective of self-propelled Vicsek particles from the random motion of a single unit
Collective dynamics are ubiquitous in the natural world. From neural circuits to animal groups, there are countless instances in which the interactions among large numbers of elementary units bestow surprisingly complex patterns ...
General Physics
Apr 12, 2022
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