Drones take farming to new heights
High above the fields of the Morven Sustainability Lab, drones equipped with heat and light sensors are changing what it means to farm smarter. This month, researchers and students from the…
Biology
Peptides form stable structures in Venus-like extreme heat and acidity
New research offers support for the possibility that complex biological molecules could exist in the highly acidic environment of Venus’s cloud layer.
Brain’s Balance Center Ignores Visual Tricks When Sensing Gravity
by Lex J. Gómez, Robyn L. Mildren, Faisal Karmali, Kathleen E. Cullen
Visual motion is known to influence perceptions of tilt, verticality, and translation, suggesting that optic flow is combined…
Animals communicate best at the rhythm of brain waves
by Theophane Piette, Chundra Cathcart, Chiara Barbieri, Keesha Martin Ming, Didier Grandjean, Balthasar Bickel, Eloïse Déaux, Anne-Lise Giraud
Scientists discover genetic markers that reveal bacterial defenses against viruses
by Shelby E. Andersen, Joshua M. Kirsch, Navtej Singh, Stephen R. Garrett, John C. Whitney, Jay R. Hesselberth, Breck A. Duerkop
Renewed interest in phage therapy has highlighted a need to…
Why the image of ‘clean and green’ is no longer enough for Australian agriculture exports
Australia’s agricultural exports have long traded on a simple label: clean and green.
Coral recovery time cut short by warming oceans
Given enough time, coral reefs can recover from cyclones, bleaching and other destructive events. But a new report released today suggests they are losing that time. The “Status of Coral Reefs of the…
The mystery of a well-traveled kissing bug
On an August morning last year, an American couple soon to embark on a European river cruise awoke in a luxury hotel in Lisbon.
Neuromorphic architectures as numerical solvers for computational neuroscience
arXiv:2608.28387v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Neuromorphic computing is closely associated with spiking neuronal networks. However, an alternative class of so-called “rate-based” models arising…
AI Neural Networks Can Now Match Human Brain Patterns Without Training
arXiv:2608.27877v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Linking the internal representations of deep neural networks (DNNs) to human mental representations is important for using DNNs as computational…