The representation and integration of internal and external cues is crucial for any organism to execute appropriate behaviors. In insects, a highly conserved region of the brain, the central complex (CX), functions in the representation of spatial information and behavioral states, as well as the ...
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Metaproteomics has matured into a powerful tool to assess functional interactions in microbial communities. While many metaproteomic workflows are available, the impact of method choice on results remains unclear. Here, we carry out a community-driven, m
“I’m primarily problem-driven in that I’m an aerospace structures researcher looking at a scalable, low-energy, efficient way to assemble architecture in zero-gravity environments,” she says. “The current model of the International Space Station is very complicated, very energy expensi...
As scientists look deeper into our genes(基因), they are finding examples of human evolution in just the past few thousand years. People in Ethiopian highlands have adapted to living at high altitudes. Cattle -raising people in East Africa and northern Europe have gained a mutation (突变) ...
a type of care robot in the shape of a seal, was granted a “koseki” (household registry) in Nanto, Japan in 2010 (Robertson,2014). The European Parliament passed a resolution in 2017 suggesting the creation of “a specific legal status for robots in the long run, so that at least ...
Thus, we do not “perceive” the world around us; what we “perceive” is a virtual reality or simulacrum created by the brain and which evolved to stand-in for the world. It provides the organism (hopefully) with a reliable basis for action. ...
We humans are guided by our interests, feelings, and emotions, which require a living organism to be truly “felt.”Therefore, if we ever manage to create a strong AI, it could only be possible by creating chimeras, cyborgs, or “animats.” ...
Obvious movements of plant organs have fascinated scientists for a long time. They have been studied extensively, but few behavioural studies to date have dealt with them, and hardly anything is known about their evolution. Here, we present a large exper
A tantalizing question in evolutionary biology is whether evolution can be predicted from past experiences. To address this question, we created a coherent compendium of more than 15,000 mutation events for the bacterium Escherichia coli under 178 distin