Reading the mouse mind from its face: New tool decodes neural activity using facial movements
Mice are always in motion. Even if there’s no external motivation for their actions—like a cat lurking a few feet ...
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Alpine rock reveals dynamics of plate movements in Earth’s interior
FRANKFURT. Geoscientists analyze rocks in mountain belts to reconstruct how they once moved downwards into the depths and then returned ...
Robot stand-in mimics movements in VR
Media Note: Pictures of VRoxy can be viewed and downloaded here: https://cornell.box.com/v/VRoxyrobotproxy ITHACA, N.Y. – Researchers from Cornell and Brown University have ...
New evidence for sub-network specializations within the Default Mode Network and the Special Role of Facial Movements in Brain Activation and Self-Perception
Recent advancements in neuroscience have unveiled new insights into the neural processes responsible for self-referential cognition. This research has brought ...
Making molecules dance to our tune reveals what drives their first movements
Bringing ultrafast physics to structural biology has revealed the dance of molecular ‘coherence’ in unprecedented clarity. Credit: Samuel Perrett Bringing ...
Unveiling the mechanism underlying orofacial movements during reward processing in animals
In animals, movements such as locomotion or grooming are known to influence neuronal activity within the cerebral cortex. Moreover, recent ...
Fiber optic smart pants offer a low-cost way to monitor movements
WASHINGTON —With an aging global population comes a need for new sensor technologies that can help clinicians and caregivers remotely ...
SwRI markerless motion capture project optimizes baseball pitchers’ movements
SAN ANTONIO — June 6, 2023 —Southwest Research Institute is using markerless motion capture to assess the performance and injury ...
Tiny eye movements are under a surprising degree of cognitive control
A very subtle and seemingly random type of eye movement called ocular drift can be influenced by prior knowledge of ...
Ranches of the future could be home to cows wearing smart-watch-style sensors powered by their movements
Using smart technology to monitor the health, reproductivity, location, and environmental conditions of cattle can help with food safety and ...
Mountain gorilla population growth related to group density and female movements
New research from the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund, just published in the journal Animal Conservation, analyses more than 50 years of ...
Push, pull or swirl: the many movements of cilia
Cilia are tiny, hair-like structures on cells throughout our bodies that beat rhythmically to serve a variety of functions when ...
Eye movements in REM sleep mimic gazes in the dream world
Multiple Brain Regions Coordinate to Conjure Wholly Imagined Worlds When our eyes move during REM sleep, we’re gazing at things ...
New programmable materials can sense their own movements
MIT researchers have developed a method for 3D printing materials with tunable mechanical properties, which can sense how they are ...
Gaelic ultrasound videos shed new light on mechanics of tongue movements during speech
The first publicly available ultrasound recordings of Gaelic give a previously unseen perspective on tongue shapes used while speaking the ...
Robotic ammonites recreate ancient animals’ movements
In a university swimming pool, scientists and their underwater cameras watch carefully as a coiled shell is released from a ...
Development of ultra-thin, high-efficiency piezoelectric elements that generate electricity from movements in daily life
□ A research team led by Professor Lee Sung-won of the Department of Physics and Chemistry at DGIST (President: Kuk ...
Extra “eye” movements are the key to better self-driving cars
Andrea Benucci and colleagues at the RIKEN Center for Brain Science has developed a way to create artificial neural networks ...
New research utilizes cell phone data to track population movements and more efficiently implement pandemic lockdowns
INFORMS Journal Management Science New Study Key Takeaways: Using cell phone data to appropriately target lockdown locations reduces virus infections ...
Smooth movements are achieved by the stable basal ganglia activity
Smooth movements require coordinated control of muscles. Even a simple reaching movement involves coordinated movements of his/her shoulder, arm, wrist ...
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Scientists discover rare 6-planet system that moves in strange synchrony
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AI image generator Stable Diffusion perpetuates racial and gendered stereotypes, study finds
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Ohio State receives $14 million to study optimal aspirin therapy in pregnancy
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The dangers of being a saber-toothed cat in Los Angeles 12,000 years ago
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Rise of microplastics discovered in placentas of Hawaiʻi mothers
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Catalysts of change: Young scientists spearhead breakthrough COVID-19 research in international collaboration