Tiny eye movements can be used as an index of humans’ ability to anticipate relevant information in the environment independent of the information’s sensory modality. …read more Source:: Science
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Sniffing out smell: How the brain organizes information about odors
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•Neuroscientists describe for the first time how relationships between different odors are encoded in the brain. The findings suggest a mechanism that may explain why individuals have common but highly …read more Source:: Science
Nextstrain seeks JavaScript developers to combat COVID-19
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•By Serdar Yegulalp Nextstrain, an open source project to provide real-time tracking information about the evolution of pathogens, has put out a call for JavaScript developers to help build out its …read more Source:: OpenSource
What a pair! Coupled quantum dots may offer a new way to store quantum information
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•Researchers have for the first time created and imaged a novel pair of quantum dots — tiny islands of confined electric charge that act like interacting artificial atoms. Such ”coupled” …read more Source:: Science
Shedding light on how the human eye perceives brightness
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•Scientists are shedding new light on the importance of light-sensing cells in the retina that process visual information. The researchers isolated the functions of melanopsin cells and demonstrated their crucial …read more Source:: Science
Shark hotspots under worldwide threat from overfishing
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•Over 150 scientists from 26 countries combined movement data from nearly 2,000 sharks tracked with satellite tags. Using this tracking information, researchers identified areas of the ocean that were important …read more Source:: Science
Chemistry of stars sheds new light on the Gaia Sausage
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•Chemical traces in the atmospheres of stars are being used to uncover new information about a galaxy, known as the Gaia Sausage, which was involved in a major collision with …read more Source:: Science
Discovery may lead to new materials for next-generation data storage
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•New research has identified properties in materials that could one day lead to applications such as more powerful data storage devices that continue to hold information even after a device …read more Source:: Science
Brains of blind people adapt to sharpen sense of hearing, study shows
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•Research uses functional MRI to identify two differences in the brains of blind individuals — differences that might be responsible for their abilities to make better use of auditory information. …read more Source:: Science
Data mining digs up hidden clues to major California earthquake triggers
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•A powerful computational study of southern California seismic records has revealed detailed information about a plethora of previously undetected small earthquakes, giving a more precise picture about stress in the …read more Source:: Science