Scientists have advanced their NeuroMechFly model, simulating fruit fly movement in the real world. With integrated vision and smell, NeuroMechFly v2 helps us understand brain-body coordination, ...

It’s quite the understatement to say that at this point in time we don’t quite understand how even the tiniest brain works exactly. Much of this is due to the sheer complexity and ...

The perception of persistent thermal sensations, such as changes in temperature, tends to gradually diminish in intensity as our bodies become accustomed to the temperature. This phenomenon leads to a ...

Olaf Morgenstern receives funding from the NZ Ministry for Business, Innovation, and Employment under the Deep South National Science Challenge and under the Strategic Science Investment Fund. The ...

This is a supercomputer’s take on 13 billion years of the history of the universe. A team at MIT has created a simulation that traces the evolution of dark matter, dark energy gas and dust, as well as ...

An astronaut on Mars? Nope—some guy in a space costume. The European Concordia Station in Antarctica hosted several ESA doctors and scientists during this past winter. Their aim is to gain an ...

There’s something that kills coding speed—iteration time. If you can smash a function key and run your code, then watch it break, tweak, and smash it again—you’re working fast. But if you have to ...