BOSTON (Reuters) – Researchers at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute in Cape Cod have begun using a helicopter-style drone to monitor humpback whales off the coast, collecting breath samples from …read more Source:: UKScienceNews
Day: August 3, 2015
Our elegant brain: Motor learning in the fast lane
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•To learn new motor skills, neurons within the cerebellum engage in elegant, virtually mathematical, computations to quickly compare expected and actual sensory feedback. They then quickly readjust, changing the strength …read more Source:: Science
Lab experiment mimics early-stage planetary formation process
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•Physicists have directly observed, for the first time, how highly charged dust-sized particles attract and capture others to build up clusters particle by particle. This process can lead to the …read more Source:: Science
Body size increase did not play a role in the origins of homo genus, new analysis suggests
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•A new analysis of early hominin body size evolution suggests that the earliest members of the Homo genus (which includes our species, Homo sapiens) may not have been larger than …read more Source:: Science
What would the world look like to someone with a bionic eye?
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•While major advancements have been made in vision recovery technologies, the vision provided by those devices might be very different from what scientists and patients have assumed. …read more Source:: Science
Star Trek-style home elevator could replace stairlifts
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•For people living in a house with more than one storey, stairlifts or home elevators are often a necessity of life as they get older and find it harder to …read more Source:: UKScienceNews