How can our brain still perceive familiar objects even when they become indistinct?
The appearance of objects can often change. For example, in dim evenings or fog, the contrast of the objects decreases, making it difficult to distinguish...
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A tough attachment between rotator cuff, bone achieved through unique fibrous architecture
Engineers often use nature to inspire new materials and designs. A discovery by a multi-institutional team of researchers and engineers about how tendon and bone...
Follow the boat, find the bird — free food from trawlers helps identify important areas for seabird conservation
· Seabird populations under threat due to human activity · University College Cork research could have implications for offshore developments · Birds with tracking devices...
Human Brain Project: Researchers outline in Science how brain research makes new demands on supercomputing
“Understanding the brain in all its complexity requires insights from multiple scales – from genomics, cells and synapses to the whole-organ level. This means working...
Earliest evidence of humans decorating jewellery in Eurasia
Upon their dispersals in Central and Western Europe by around 42,000 years ago, groups of Homo sapiens started to manipulate mammoth tusks for the production...
Doing photon upconversion a solid—Crystals that convert light to more useful wavelengths
Solid-solution organic crystals have been brought into the quest for superior photon upconversion materials, which transform presently wasted long-wavelength light into more useful shorter wavelength...
Unveiling the hidden cellular logistics of memory storage in neurons
Exploring the mechanisms involved in sleep-dependent memory storage, a team of University of Michigan (U-M) cellular biologists found that RNAs associated with an understudied cell...
Hypoxia tolerance: naked mole-rats may provide secret to low oxygen survival
Researchers at the University of Ottawa have discovered how the naked mole-rat can save energy in hypoxia and survive in low oxygen conditions. The mechanism...
Researchers find new target to combat lung disease
Research led by the Centenary Institute and University of Technology Sydney (UTS) has identified a small RNA molecule called microRNA-21 as a therapeutic target and...
Study: Exercising at the start of fast can help people reach ketosis 3.5 hours faster
With Thanksgiving just a day away — and the most anticipated meal of the year already in the works — the last thing on most...
New study shows electric fields can improve the efficiency of wastewater purification
Ammonia is one of many pollutants present in wastewater and can be toxic for marine and terrestrial life. Therefore, in a process called air stripping,...
Sun compass on demand
Monarch butterflies are famous for their annual long-distance migration, which takes them over several thousand kilometres from the north of the USA to their overwintering...
How the pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis secretes and trafficks its only known exotoxin
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Six years ago, Michael Niederweis, Ph.D., described the first known toxin of the deadly pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), an exotoxin that had...
Social media firms can tackle wildlife trade
Wildlife trading on social media is a complex issue – but tech firms can take steps to tackle it, according to new research.Credit: World Parrot...
Enhancing the workhorse: Artificial intelligence, hardware innovations boost confocal microscope’s performance
WOODS HOLE, Mass. – Since artificial intelligence pioneer Marvin Minsky patented the principle of confocal microscopy in 1957, it has become the workhorse standard in...
