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People solve new problems readily without any special training or practice by comparing them to familiar problems and extending the solution to the new problem. That process, known as analogical reasoning, has long been thought to be a…

Chronic inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), such as Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, is on the rise worldwide. The benefits of current medications are limited by problematic side effects. In the journal Angewandte Chemie, a South…

Competitive neuron concept. Credit: Nature Nanotechnology (2023). DOI: 10.1038/s41565-023-01391-6 Researchers have created atomically thin…

Combining the artificial perceptual device with advanced sensors means the system can detect subtle human motion, and physiological signals, and interpret the sensing…

The virtual environment used for all simulations. Object locations are random, except for the purple objects on the right and top arms, which represent dead ends, and…

Most life on Earth is based on polymers of 20 amino acids that have evolved into hundreds of thousands of different, highly specialized proteins. They catalyze reactions, form backbone and muscle and even generate movement. But is all that…

Typical trial. (a) Illustration of the dynamics during a normal exploration. While the finger contacts the plate, the skin expands outward, creating residual stress.…

If you thought the UK’s departure from the EU would free it to do things differently from its neighbours on the continent, consider this: on both sides of the Channel, governments are increasingly going to find their tax and spending…

A biological neuron and the OAN. a, Simplified schematic of a biological neuron. Action potentials, the basic cell-to-cell communication events, are generated by rapid…

Patient-derived parathyroid organoids (PTOs) could pave the way for future physiology studies and drug-screening applications, as shown in a study published on October 27 in the journal Stem Cell Reports. "We are the first group in the…