Do people and monkeys see colors the same way?
New findings in color vision research imply that humans can perceive a greater range of blue tones than monkeys do.
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What decides neural stem cell fate?
Researchers at Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute and their collaborators found that expression of a gene called SOX2 maintains the potential for neural crest stem cells to become neurons in the peripheral nervous ...
Cell & Microbiology
May 5, 2011
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Neuron circuit may enable pitch perception applications
The first FitzHugh-Nagumo neuron circuit designed to include noise and exhibit the Ghost Stochastic Resonance effect has been presented by researchers from Université de Bourgogne in France. Their circuit operates according ...
Engineering
Aug 19, 2014
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A more precise model of the Earth's ionosphere
The ionosphere—the region of geospace spanning from 60 to 1000 kilometers above the Earth—impairs the propagation of radio signals from global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) with its electrically charged particles. ...
Planetary Sciences
Apr 24, 2023
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Self-checking algorithm interprets gravitational-wave data
When two black holes merge, they emit gravitational waves that race through space and time at the speed of light. When these reach Earth, large detectors in the United States (LIGO), Italy (Virgo) and Japan (KAGRA) can detect ...
Astronomy
Apr 27, 2023
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Team adds powerful new dimension to phenotyping next-gen bioenergy crop
Miscanthus is one of the most promising perennial crops for bioenergy production since it is able to produce high yields with a small environmental footprint. This versatile grass has great potential to perform even better, ...
Agriculture
Nov 4, 2022
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How small is a small-world network?
Discovered in the field of social sciences in the 1960s, the phenomenon known as small-world networks has fascinated popular culture and science for decades. It arose from the observation that in the world, any two people ...
General Physics
Dec 4, 2019
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An artificial polariton neuron as a step towards a photonic system that mimics the operation of the human brain
Scientists from the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw and the Polish Academy of Sciences used photons to create a spiking neuron, the basic element of the future photonic neural network processor. The results ...
Optics & Photonics
Oct 24, 2022
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How does a skeleton move? A new tracking method to quantify skeletal kinematics in freely moving rodents
How can we measure a skeleton's motion in a furry animal as it moves through its environment? Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology of Behavior have developed a method to quantify skeletal motion in freely ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 8, 2022
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Crayfish brain may offer rare insight into human decision making
Crayfish make surprisingly complex, cost-benefit calculations, finds a University of Maryland study, opening the door to a new line of research that may help unravel the cellular brain activity involved in human decisions.
Plants & Animals
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