Worms know bad food when they smell it
...ise to design a more complex maze for the worms to navigate through, allowing them to choose from several varieties of bacteria. "Now we could do things like compare the good bacteria they know and the bad bacteria they know to two completely unfamiliar bacteria that they've never seen before," Bargmann expla...Bacteria which sense the Earth's magnetic field
...up" from "down" in the Earth's magnetic field, and navigate themselves confidently through layers of water to efficiently find optimal growth conditions. The magnetosomes are made of tiny crystals of the magnetic iron mineral magnetite (Fe3O4) -- only about 50 nanometres in size (one nanometre = one millionth...Bats use touch receptors on wings to fly, catch prey, study finds
...her animals. Bats use echolocation to identify and navigate their environment by emitting calls and listening to the echoes that return from various objects. Zook believes the touch-sensitive receptors on bats' wings work in conjunction with echolocation to make bats better, more accurate nocturnal hunters. E...New research shows bats have complex skills to deal with 'clutter'
...rigerator might mean taking a few extra seconds to navigate your way to a late night snack. For a bat flying around in the dark searching for a meal of insects, the "clutter" of things like leaves and trees could mean missing out on a tasty morsel of dinner altogether. A bat finds its way around with sound ...Leave it to salmon to leave no stone unturned
... the bane of boaters who, even with boats meant to navigate in shallow waters, can find their vessels grounded. Smaller species of salmon that spawn at higher densities are capable of even more widespread tilling, according to Moore, who has for six summers worked with sockeye salmon through the UW's Alaska ...Contaminants linked to sturgeon decline in Columbia river
... salmon, the bottom-dwelling white sturgeon rarely navigate dams successfully making it difficult for them to expand their habitat or access oceanic food sources. Schreck and Feist studied white sturgeon from three reservoirs along the Columbia River and from areas downstream of Bonneville, the last dam on th...Protowings may have helped bird ancestors cover rough terrain
...wings to improve hindlimb traction and thus better navigate steep slopes and obstructions. By using their protowings in this way, they would presumably have had an advantage when pursuing prey and escaping from predators. Dial and colleagues performed experiments on several species of juvenile galliform (chi......experimentation." The observations that sea slugs navigate with respect to water flow and direction based on odor and other cues will inspire further studies of this behavior and aid scientists studying the nerve cells involved in navigation, an important problem every animal faces. "Once you know what a b...Robots manipulating animal behaviour
...ed walls, the robots move, turn and stop. They can navigate their way safely by avoiding the walls, obstacles or each other, follow the walls, congregate around a lamp beam or even line up. When placed in the same area with cockroaches, the robots quickly adapt their behaviour by mimicking the animals' moveme...Public Library of Science announces PLoS ONE: A new approach to open-access publishing
...nd creating powerful new ways for other readers to navigate and understand the literature. Papers published by PLoS ONE will be held to rigorous standards of scientific quality. However, subjective considerations like "likely impact," "degree of advance," or "interest to a general reader" will not play a ro...Long-term changes in experience cause neurons to sprout new long-lasting connections
...the whiskers is vitally important for mice as they navigate their environment. Consequently, a significant portion of the mouse's brain is devoted to processing input from whiskers. To monitor changes in neuronal structure visually, the researchers used a novel technique that Svoboda's team had developed earl...Discovery of agile molecular motors could aid in treating motor neuron diseases
...otors are surprisingly flexible and agile, able to navigate obstacles within the cell. These observations coul...called actin. This flexibility could help myosin V navigate crowded regions of the cell where the actin filaments criss-cross and where other cellular component...Scientists map the flight of the bumblebee
...r food and if certain environments are trickier to navigate than others. This knowledge will ultimately help w...arch are intriguing, because it shows the bees can navigate their way home from further away than this." Scientists are unsure how bumblebees navigate. Vision...Three at MIT conceive cell-shaped building
... work in architecture -- "Explore the unknowns and navigate the uncharted territories," he urged -- and to spend time in Zhang's laboratory learning about bioengineering. The next year, Zhang contacted Kulper with the news that he was now the founding advisor of a new research institute at Sichuan Universit...University, VA hospital launch nation's first comprehensive meth research center
...mpairments in the ability to recognize objects and navigate based on memory. These effects were much more pronounced in female than in male mice. He also found that a naturally released compound, histamine, mediates these long-term impairments, and that the histamine system may be an important link to develop...Spring in your step helps avert disastrous stumbles, scientists say
...lop better prosthetics and robots robust enough to navigate terrain that would leave today's automatons spinning their wheels. "Limbs perform wonderfully on uneven terrain," says author Andrew A. Biewener, the Charles P. Lyman Professor of Biology in Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences. "Legged animals r......ey travel and on later trips to the food site will navigate using a combination of landmarks and memories of t...explained: "To show that ants use visual memory to navigate we trained ants to find food 10cm from a cylinder. We then doubled the size of the cylinder and the ...Biological clock of honey bee more similar to humans than to insects
...are slightly longer than one centimeter, precisely navigate to flowers situated as far as 10 km from their beehive. The central biological clock is located in the brain and is made up of groups of "clock cells," each of which is capable of creating a circadian rhythm independently. These circadian rhythms a...A Wellcome brain gain for world leading neuroscience lab
...es have enlarged hippocampi due to their having to navigate the city's streets. Dr Maguire's research aims to establish how we internally represent large-scale space and our experiences within it, and seeks to determine how this supports our sense of who and where we are. Dr Maguire also studies disorders...Faculty of 1,000 biology launch Pharmacology & Drug Discovery Faculty
... Faculty of 1000 helps busy, engaged scientists to navigate the rapidly changing scientific road. This is particularly the case in the broad worlds of Pharmacology and Drug Discovery." These respected leaders in the field have helped recruit over 200 experts to act as Section Heads and Faculty Members. A fu...