Nature's fibre optics
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Muller cells function as fibre optic cables, transporting light through the retina
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August 26, 2009
The star-nosed mole's amazing appendages
Category: Animal Behaviour
The star-nosed mole's amazing fleshy appendages make it the fastest forager in the animal kingdom and enable it to sniff out food underwater
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August 11, 2009
Connectome? Not so fast...
Category: Neuroscience
Several weeks ago, the NIH announced the $30m 5-year Human Connectome Project, but it's going to take much longer than that to produce a detailed whole brain connectivity map
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August 6, 2009
Those clever corvids
Category: Animal Behaviour
British researchers capture more film footage of crows and rooks doing incredibly clever things
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