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To approximate how many brain cells make up insect brains, neuroscientists made “brain soup.” In addition to revealing interesting insights into the evolution of insect brains, the work provides a more meaningful metric than traditional studies measuring brain size or weight. The surprisingly simple technique—mashing up brains into a “soup”—let researchers discover that certain species of bees have a higher density of brain cells than even some species of birds, whereas ants turned out to have fewer brain cells than originally expected. Published in the Proceedings of the Royal S...

European digital art fest to feature NTHU artworks By Hung Mei-hsiu and Kayleigh Madjar / Staff reporter, with staff writer A European digital art festival is exhibiting 15 artworks by National Tsing Hua University (NTHU) students, the only one in Asia to receive an invitation. Recto VRso, an international festival held during the Laval Virtual exhibition in Laval, France, aims to promote works of art “related to interactive and immersive art between the real and the virtual.” The theme of this year’s show, “Virtual Exhibition / Real Exhibition,” seeks to explore the evolving ways...

Dr. Penny Riggs is an Associate Professor of Functional Genomics in the Department of Animal Science and serves as Associate Vice President for Research at Texas A&M University. She is an adjunct member of the Department of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences. Her current research focuses on analysis of gene, RNA and protein expression, function and signaling relevant to the inheritance of production traits and disease susceptibility in beef cattle and other food animals, particularly in skeletal muscle. Other work is focused on whole genome sequencing of bacterial pathogens. Additional inter...

Wulfila Gronenberg Using a surprisingly simple technique, researchers in the University of Arizona Department of Neuroscience have succeeded in approximating how many brain cells make up the brains of several species of bees, ants and wasps. The work revealed that certain species of bees have a higher density of brain cells than even some species of birds, whereas ants turned out to have fewer brain cells than originally expected. Published in the scientific journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, the study marks the first time the new cell counting method has been applied to invertebra...

Jan 11, 2021 The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced the first U.S. death from COVID-19 on Feb. 29, 2020. Within a month, more than 1,000 Americans were dying on a single day. Since then, we’ve reached that daily number many times over. Some days, more than 2,500 people have died. And yet, many are largely disconnected from the pain, unwilling or unable to recognize or process the loss. Where is the collective mourning? I am an empathy scientist, and I can report that we are not a nation of psychopaths. People have a limited capacity to process mass suffering, rath...