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- Self-watering soil could transform farming
- Beetle larvae think with brain 'under construction'
- An underwater navigation system powered by sound
- Criss-crossing viruses give rise to peculiar hybrid variants
- Intelligent cameras enhance human perception
- A malformation illustrates the incredible plasticity of the brain
| Self-watering soil could transform farming Posted: 02 Nov 2020 01:26 PM PST A new type of soil created by engineers can pull water from the air and distribute it to plants, potentially expanding the map of farmable land around the globe to previously inhospitable places and reducing water use in agriculture at a time of growing droughts. |
| Beetle larvae think with brain 'under construction' Posted: 02 Nov 2020 09:01 AM PST In human brains, hundreds of billions of nerve cells are interconnected in the most complicated way. This is no different for insects, although their brains 'only' have up to one million nerve cells. To a large extent, the brain develops in the embryo, but in many animals it is completed only after birth. Biologists found that beetle larvae start using their brains, although still 'under construction'. |
| An underwater navigation system powered by sound Posted: 02 Nov 2020 08:00 AM PST Underwater backscatter localization could allow for battery-free ocean exploration. The system is akin to subsea GPS and has potential applications in marine conservation, aquaculture, underwater robotics, and more. |
| Criss-crossing viruses give rise to peculiar hybrid variants Posted: 02 Nov 2020 06:09 AM PST Biologists investigate a recently discovered class of viruses that have taken the characteristic versatility of the viral world to new heights. Referred to as cruciviruses, these minute forms reveal a fusion of components from both RNA and DNA viruses, proving that these previously distinct genomic domains can, under proper conditions, intermingle, producing a hybrid or chimeric viral variant. |
| Intelligent cameras enhance human perception Posted: 02 Nov 2020 04:29 AM PST A team of researchers has developed an intelligent camera that achieves not only high spatial and temporal but also spectral resolution. The camera has a wide range of applications that can improve environmental protection and resource conservation measures as well as autonomous driving or modern agriculture. |
| A malformation illustrates the incredible plasticity of the brain Posted: 30 Oct 2020 09:25 AM PDT One in 4,000 people is born without a corpus callosum, a brain structure consisting of neural fibers that are used to transfer information between hemisphere. 25% of them do not have any symptoms. Neuroscientists discovered that when the neuronal fibers that act as a bridge between the hemispheres are missing, the brain reorganizes itself and creates an impressive number of connections inside each hemisphere, recreating connections using alternative neural pathways. |
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