News tagged with orientation system
Ants can learn to forage on one-way trails
Apr 01, 2009 |
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Ant trails fascinate children and scientists alike. With so many ants traveling in both directions, meeting and contacting one another, carrying their loads and giving the impression that they have a sense of urgency and ...
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Even fruit flies have an orientation memory: Recall tested in a virtual space
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Jul 10, 2008 |
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In order to cope with their environment, animals must be able to remember the location of their destination in situations in which they temporarily lose sight of it. This ability, known as orientation memory, is found in ...
Study indicates how we maintain visual details in short-term memory
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 20, 2009 |
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Working memory (also known as short term memory) is our ability to keep a small amount of information active in our mind. This is useful for information we need to know on-the-fly, such as a phone number or the few items ...
Sexual Orientation Revealed by Body Type and Motion, Study Suggests
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 03, 2007 |
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An individual's body motion and body type can offer subtle cues about their sexual orientation, but casual observers seem better able to read those cues in gay men than in lesbians, according to a new study in the September ...
New windows opened on cell-to-cell interactions (w/ Video)
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jul 22, 2009 |
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Applying biological molecules from cell membranes to the surfaces of artificial materials is opening peepholes on the very basics of cell-to-cell interaction.
Simulations help explain fast water transport in nanotubes
Sep 16, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- By discovering the physical mechanism behind the rapid transport of water in carbon nanotubes, scientists at the University of Illinois have moved a step closer to ultra-efficient, next-generation ...
Real pilots and 'virtual flyers' go head-to-head
Technology / Computer Sciences
Oct 15, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Stunt pilots have raced against computer-generated opponents for the first time — in a contest that combines the real and the 'virtual' at 250 miles per hour.
Passage graves from an astronomical perspective
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Dec 18, 2008 |
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Passage graves are mysterious barrows from the Stone Age. New research from the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen indicates that the Stone Age graves' orientation in the landscape could ...
Echoes discovered in early visual brain areas play role in working memory
Feb 18, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Vanderbilt University researchers have discovered that early visual areas, long believed to play no role in higher cognitive functions such as memory, retain information previously hidden from brain studies. ...
How baby fish find a home
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Jan 16, 2008 |
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One of the most significant questions facing marine ecologists today, is just how much of an impact global variations in the environment are having on the dispersal of larval and juvenile marine species from ...
Researchers revisit male bisexuality
Dec 16, 2008 |
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The landmark "Sexual Behavior in the Human Male" report revealed major insights into bisexual behavior and orientation -- without even using the word "bisexual" -- when it was published 60 years ago by pioneering ...
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