Spending too much money? Tempted by sales? These ways to 'hack' your psychology can help
It's late November, which means the holiday sales period has well and truly begun. If you haven't already seen your spending go up, the possibility is looming.
It's late November, which means the holiday sales period has well and truly begun. If you haven't already seen your spending go up, the possibility is looming.
Social Sciences
Nov 25, 2022
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How can we measure a skeleton's motion in a furry animal as it moves through its environment? Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology of Behavior have developed a method to quantify skeletal motion in freely ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 8, 2022
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Many COVID-19 patients who have been treated for weeks or months with mechanical ventilation have been slow to regain consciousness even after being taken off sedation. A new article in the Proceedings of the National Academy ...
Other
Nov 7, 2022
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Scientists have decoded visual images from a dog's brain, offering a first look at how the canine mind reconstructs what it sees. The Journal of Visualized Experiments published the research done at Emory University.
Biotechnology
Sep 16, 2022
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Scientists at EPFL have developed an implantation technique that allows unprecedented optical access to the "spinal cord" of the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster. This work can potentially lead to breakthroughs in the fields ...
Biotechnology
Sep 13, 2022
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Not only does organism's body have a biological clock that can tell the time of the day, it can also tell the time of the year. Researchers from Japan have found that one capable little molecule may be behind the mechanism ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 6, 2022
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Taste matters to fruit flies, just as it does to humans: like people, the flies tend to seek out and consume sweet-tasting foods and reject foods that taste bitter. However, little is known about how sweet and bitter tastes ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 22, 2022
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Neuroscientists at Goethe University, Frankfurt have discovered a feedback loop that modulates the receptivity of the auditory cortex to incoming acoustic signals when bats emit echolocation calls. In a study published in ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 3, 2022
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A small international team of researchers has developed a way to synthesize tetrodotoxin (TTX) using far fewer steps than prior methods. In their paper published in the journal Science, the group describes their process and ...
Cells constantly have to adapt the level of activity of certain genes to specific requirements. This applies particularly to neurons, where synapses have to be repeatedly re-formed, re-wired, and restructured. For these processes—without ...
Cell & Microbiology
May 23, 2022
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