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VR Study Shows We "See" Gravity Rather Than "Feel" It
A new study in Frontiers in Neuroscience used virtual reality to determine how people plan their movements by "seeing" gravity using visual cues in the landscape around them, rather than "feeling it" through changes in weight and balance.
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New Model Simulates Accumulation of Lipids in Membranes
Researchers have designed an experiment that simulates the formation of a new type of lipid raft on a nanometric scale around objects incrusted in the membranes.
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Study Suggests Digital Solutions Could Boost Reliability of Autism Test
Rutgers researchers have found that a test widely used to diagnose whether children have autism is less reliable than previously assumed.
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The Secret to Looking Younger Is, For AI, Right Under Your Nose
Rhinoplasty, or cosmetic nose surgery, may make a woman look up to three years younger, according to a new study led by researchers at UCLA that used a type of artificial intelligence known as machine learning.
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Wasps Rapidly Evolved Ability To Identify Faces
Individuals within a species may all look alike to the average insect, but one paper wasp species has evolved specialized cognitive abilities to recognize individual faces among their peers. How did complex cognition evolve in just this species?
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Esports Lab Shows No Difference Between the Sexes in Spatial Cognition
Men are not better than women at spatial cognition - such as map reading - is the principal finding from ground-breaking work by researchers at Lero, the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software, hosted at University of Limerick (UL), Ireland.
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Encyclopedia of 1,000 Genes Linked to Organ Development
A team of undergraduates and high school students has published an encyclopedia of more than 1,000 fruit fly genes which could be associated with the development of several organs.
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Stem Cell Study Suggests Parkinson's Could Begin Before Birth
People who develop Parkinson's disease before age 50 may have been born with disordered brain cells that went undetected for decades, according to new Cedars-Sinai research. The research points to a drug that potentially might help correct these disease processes.
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Inside the Social Network of Neurons
The same three proteins that bring together neighboring neurons are also responsible for the repulsion of migrating nerve cells in early brain development, according to a new study.
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Molecule Discovery Aims to Slow Down Parkinson's
Researchers have discovered a small molecule, known as Synucleozid, that could slow or halt the progression of Parkinson’s disease.
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