Category: Nature-Animals
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Blurring light…
Artificial night-time lighting has a diverse range of effects across the natural world and should be limited where possible, researchers say. (1) Artificial light. But is there natural light? Wasn't the cosmos born in darkness? Didn't all that light come from the shadows? Look again. So clear. So dazzling. Hiding everything because it is so…
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Brain & Artificial neurons. Tears. Smiles.
Brain functions are made possible by circuits of spiking neurons, connected together by microscopic, but highly complex links called synapses. In this new study, published in the scientific journal Nature Scientific Reports, the scientists created a hybrid neural network where biological and artificial neurons in different parts of the world were able to communicate with…
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Natural. Unnatural. How natural…
To find out which sights specific neurons in monkeys 'like' best, researchers designed an algorithm, called XDREAM, that generated images that made neurons fire more than any natural images the researchers tested. As the images evolved, they started to look like distorted versions of real-world stimuli. (1) Round and round we go. Trying to understand…
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The last white rhino…
Rhino embryos made in lab to save nearly extinct subspecies. The development is an early step toward the much more distant goal of resurrecting the northern white rhinoceros, whose last male died this year. (1) Being the last of your kind. A sad moment. A lonely moment. Those eyes. Full of lust for life. In…
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Small little insects… Making the ocean move… Modern science… Shrimps laughing…
Scientists have demonstrated how some of the smallest creatures in the ocean could have the same outsized impact under the waves – with swarms of marine organisms inadvertently producing powerful currents that mix and churn a turbulent undersea environment. "Right now a lot of our ocean climate models don't include the effect of animals, or…
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