Butterfly species' big brains adapted to give them a survival edge, study finds
Heliconius butterflies' brains grew as they adopted a novel foraging behavior, scientists at the University of Bristol have found.
Heliconius butterflies' brains grew as they adopted a novel foraging behavior, scientists at the University of Bristol have found.
Plants & Animals
Jul 13, 2023
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Neuroscientists watched the brains of mice as they played virtual reality games to elucidate how memory goes from its initial formation in the hippocampus to longer-term storage in the cortex. Reporting in the journal Cell ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 30, 2023
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Neuromorphic photonics/electronics is the future of ultralow energy intelligent computing and artificial intelligence (AI). In recent years, inspired by the human brain, artificial neuromorphic devices have attracted extensive ...
Optics & Photonics
Jun 30, 2022
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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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New research shows that red-footed tortoises can remember the location of their favourite food sources and the biggest stashes for at least 18 months.
Plants & Animals
Feb 1, 2017
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They are famed for their highly developed work ethic ... now a study shows ants' navigational skills are more sophisticated than was previously thought.
Plants & Animals
Jan 19, 2017
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Arthur Conan Doyle's famous literary detective Sherlock Holmes once noted that "the little things are infinitely the most important." It's a belief that investigators at the University of Alberta obviously share. Whether ...
Social Sciences
Mar 21, 2016
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Loosely inspired by a biological brain's approach to making sense of visual information, a University of Michigan researcher is leading a project to build alternative computer hardware that could process images and video ...
Computer Sciences
Aug 16, 2013
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(Phys.org) —A unique study carried out by researchers from the U.K., Australia and Canada has revealed that babies born to blind mothers don't appear to suffer degraded communication skills compared to babies born to sighted ...
(Phys.org) —Talk about storing data in the cloud. Scientists at the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI) of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Maryland have taken this to a whole new ...
Quantum Physics
Apr 4, 2013
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