In this post, Félix P. Leiva, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Germany, discusses his article “The role of cell size in shaping responses to oxygen and temperature in…
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The construction of visual attention highlighted at the neuronal level
Attention being caught. Credit: Mikhail Nilov. A giant billboard flashes on the side of a country road. Why does it catch our attention more easily than other details in the…
Scientists on the hunt for evidence of quantum gravity’s existence at the South Pole
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Several thousand sensors distributed over a square kilometer near the South Pole are tasked with answering one of the large outstanding questions in physics: does quantum…
Fast Radio Bursts – Technology Org
No one knows what causes them, but they may help us map the universe down to its furthest reaches fast radio bursts. Bright flashes travelling across galaxies, their origins shrouded…
Ousted WeWork co-founder bids to buy company: Reports
The pandemic exacerbated WeWork’s woes as people avoided offices for fear of Covid-19. Ousted WeWork co-founder Adam Neumann recently bid more than $500 million to buy back the struggling office-sharing…
Tiniest ‘starquakes’ ever detected
Artist ‘s impression of sound waves (p modes), with different frequencies, traveling across the inner layers of a star. Credit: Tania Cunha (Planetário do Porto—Centro Ciência Viva)/Instituto de Astrofísica e…
More must be done for depressed stroke survivors as incidence climbs, say researchers
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Researchers say that more must be done for depressed stroke survivors, as new findings show 60% of stroke survivors would experience depression within 18 years, a…
