Studies and Analyses

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Virtual "moonwalk" for science reveals distortions in spatial memory

In order to remember where important events happened, or how to get from A to B, our brains form mental “maps” of our environment. An important component of…

Autonomous Agriculture in 2045?

The development and introduction of machines ranging from highly automated to driverless will have a strong impact on global agriculture. This inevitably…

What and how much we eat might change our internal clocks and hormone responses

The research conducted in mice found that the time-of-day dependent metabolic cycle is altered by high caloric diet. Since glucocorticoids are widely used…

Do horses copy humans?

Two students at Nürtingen-Geislingen University studied learning techniques applied by horses for learning how to open a feed box after observing humans doing…

ECG procedure indicates whether an implantable defibrillator will extend a patient's life

In heart patients with potentially life-threatening arrhythmias, a strong electrical shock applied to the cardiac muscle can reset the heart to its regular…

Fracking prompts global spike in atmospheric methane

The research suggests that this methane has less carbon-13 relative to carbon-12 (denoting the weight of the carbon atom at the centre of the methane molecule)…

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