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Your commute to work may seem like a mundane thing, but it is a great example of the complicated tasks our brains must carry out on a daily basis:

Geometrical Thinking Offers a Window Into Computation In a pair of studies, researchers use a novel way of examining data to explain how animals simultaneously encode tiny details and the big picture. Share This April 7, 2021 If you spent 2020 the same way I did — housebound, with an abundance of free time — perhaps you also directed your attention to the following critical but boring task: organizing your clothes. Imagine you have a two-drawer dresser, and you need to sort four types of ga...

Credits: Credit: © Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Caption: When they die, phytoplankton collectively sink through the water column as “marine snow,” carrying with them the carbon that they initially absorbed. Shown here are white flakes and pellets that typically make up sinking marine material. Credits: Credit: © Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Previous image Next image The oc...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The ocean’s “biological pump” describes the many marine processes that work to take up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and transport it deep into the ocean, where it can remain sequestered for centuries. This ocean pump is a powerful regulator of atmospheric carbon dioxide and an essential ingredient in any global climate forecast. But a new MIT study points to a significant uncertainty in the way the biological pump is represented in climate model...

 E-Mail IMAGE: The inner terrestrial protoplanets accrete early, inherit a substantial amount of radioactive 26Al, and hence melt, form iron cores, and degas their primordial volatile abundances rapidly. The outer Solar System... view more  Credit: Mark A Garlick/markgarlick.com An international team of researchers from the University of Oxford, LMU Munich, ETH Zurich, BGI Bayreuth, and the University of Zurich discovered that a two-step formation process of the early Solar System can...

 E-Mail Researchers from MBARI, the University of Hawaii at Mānoa (UH Mānoa), and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, after years of development and testing, have successfully demonstrated that a fleet of autonomous robots can track and study a moving microbial community in an open-ocean eddy. The results of this research effort were recently published in Science Robotics. Autonomous robotic fleets enable researchers to observe complex systems in ways that are otherwise impossible with pu...

Love and Hate in the Mouse Brain December 24, 2020Caltech Mounting behavior, that awkward thrusting motion dogs sometimes do against your leg, is usually associated with sexual arousal in animals, but this is not always the case. New research by Caltech neuroscientists that explores the motivations behind mounting behavior in mice finds that sometimes there is a thin line between love and hate (or anger) in the mouse brain. The research, which appears in the journal  Nature, was conducted in t...

Date Time Love and Hate in Mouse Brain Mounting behavior, that awkward thrusting motion dogs sometimes do against your leg, is usually associated with sexual arousal in animals, but this is not always the case. New research by Caltech neuroscientists that explores the motivations behind mounting behavior in mice finds that sometimes there is a thin line between love and hate (or anger) in the mouse brain. The research, which appears in the journal Nature, was conducted in the lab of David Ander...

Love and Hate in the Mouse Brain December 23, 2020 Mounting behavior, that awkward thrusting motion dogs sometimes do against your leg, is usually associated with sexual arousal in animals, but this is not always the case. New research by Caltech neuroscientists that explores the motivations behind mounting behavior in mice finds that sometimes there is a thin line between love and hate (or anger) in the mouse brain. The research, which appears in the journal Nature, was conducted in t...

The Good Kind of Brainwashing Scientists are exploring why the glymphatic system, which helps clear waste from the brain, declines with age — and whether slowing that decline can improve aging. Share This December 10, 2020 About seven years ago, Maiken Nedergaard, a neuroscientist at New York State’s University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC), and colleagues noticed a striking change in the mice they were studying. The researchers were using a microscope to spy on the animals’ brains ...