Do Mantis Shrimp See More Colors Than Humans? A Biologist Explains

With 12 colour receptors, the mantis shrimp seems visually unmatched. But studies reveal that their visual system likely ...

The secret sensory life of plants: researchers are discovering how they see, hear, feel – and even remember

Plants can tune into the sound of water to direct their roots towards it, or release toxins to make themselves less palatable ...

Scientists turn AI-generated proteins into smart molecular sensors

An international team led by researchers at QUT has used artificial intelligence to create tiny "smart" proteins that switch ...
eLife

Beyond the Focus of Expansion: Retinal curl as a functional signal for heading estimation

This study provides an important and biologically plausible account of how human perceptual judgments of heading direction are influenced by a specific pattern of motion in optic flow fields known as ...
The Daily Northwestern

NU Creative Writing program invites student wordsmiths

With pens in hand, students in the Northwestern undergraduate Creative Writing program cultivate imagination and pure expression. Founded in 1980, NU’s undergraduate Creative Writing program was one ...