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Room for thought: Brain region that watches for walls identified

To move through the world, you need a sense of your surroundings, especially of the constraints that restrict your movement: the walls, ceiling and other barriers that define the geometry of the navigable space around you. And now, a team of neuroscientists has identified an area of the human brain dedicated to perceiving this geometry. […]

Published on May 13, 2019

New unsustainable viewing habits

A team of computing researchers has taken the closest look yet at the nature and extent of how household viewing habits have changed — providing valuable new evidence for the researchers, who are interested in our changing viewing habits and how this links to the huge increases in Internet data traffic. Read Full Article (External […]

Published on May 13, 2019

Tomato pan-genome makes bringing flavor back easier

Do you find that most store-bought tomatoes don’t have much flavor? Scientists may have spotlighted the solution by developing the tomato pan-genome, mapping almost 5,000 previously undocumented genes, including genes for flavor. Read Full Article (External Site) Dr. David LowemannDr. David Lowemann, M.Sc, Ph.D., is a co-founder of the Institute for the Future of Human […]

Published on May 13, 2019