Listen carefully, and a plant may tell you it’s thirsty. Dry tomato and tobacco plants emit distinct ultrasonic clicks, scientists report March 30 in Cell. The noises sound something like…
Category: Life
Judge Deals Another Blow to Tejon Ranchcorp Project
Site of proposed Centennial project wildflowers; Image: Richard Dickey L.A. County Ordered to Set Aside Approvals for Risky Sprawl Development March 28, 2023, LOS ANGELES, CALIF. – A judge has…
A Novel CCK Receptor GPR173 Mediates Potentiation of GABAergic Inhibition
Introduction Cholecystokinin (CCK), the most abundant and widely distributed neuropeptide in the CNS (Crawley and Corwin, 1994), colocalizes with glutamate (Morino et al., 1994), GABA (Somogyi et al., 1984; Markram…
Neural Substrates of Body Ownership and Agency during Voluntary Movement
Abstract Body ownership and the sense of agency are two central aspects of bodily self-consciousness. While multiple neuroimaging studies have investigated the neural correlates of body ownership and agency separately,…
Severely Attenuated Visual Feedback Processing in Children on the Autism Spectrum
Introduction Individuals on the autism spectrum demonstrate atypicality in sensory processing across multiple domains. Given that efficient integration of basic sensory information forms a foundation for more complex cognition and…
Gordon Moore, digital pioneer and philanthropist, dies at 94
Digital pioneer, business leader and philanthropist Gordon Moore died at his home in Hawaiʻi on March 24, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation announced. He was 94. Moore co-founded the…
Volcanic sulfur may make barn owls grow redder feathers
Life on a volcanic isle appears to give barn owls a blush of red-brown plumage. The high-sulfur environment on such islands influences the birds’ coloration, researchers report March 13 in…
Chia seedlings verify Alan Turing’s ideas about patterns in nature
LAS VEGAS – Chia seeds sprouted in trays have experimentally confirmed a mathematical model proposed by computer scientist and polymath Alan Turing decades ago. The model describes how patterns might…
Reviewing Ecology Contested: Environmental Politics Between Left and Right
by Steven R. D. Henderson Ecofascism: Lessons from the German Experience was published when the American ecology movement debated social critique on one hand, or Malthusianism and anti-humanism on the…
Scientists have now recorded brain waves from freely moving octopuses
For the first time, scientists have recorded brain waves from freely moving octopuses. The data reveal some unexpected patterns, though it’s too early to know how octopus brains control the…
