Understanding the neural mechanisms underlying associative threat learning is essential for advancing behavioral models of threat and adaptation. We investigated distinct activation patterns across ...

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This study addresses an important question and shows how social navigation in homing pigeons can be explained by simple averaging, without requiring any complex cognitive abilities. The evidence, ...

Stefan Hutzler and Louise Bradley explain how they turned the famous pitch-drop experiment into an outreach activity ...

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A new class of highly efficient and scalable quantum low-density parity-check error correction codes, capable of performance approaching the theoretical hashing bound, has been developed by scientists ...

Recent experiments involving the super-heating of gold have led to unexpected results that challenge a fundamental law of the universe. This scientific anomaly, which occurred in September 2025, has ...

Machine translators have made it easier than ever to create error-plagued Wikipedia articles in obscure languages. What happens when AI models get trained on junk pages?

In a 50 mL centrifuge tube, mix 5 g of homogenized salmon/avocado or 2 g of feed/spice powder with water (5 mL for salmon/avocado, 15 mL for feed/spice powder). Extract with 12 mL of acetonitrile and ...

Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), the University of California (UC) Berkeley, UC Riverside and UC Santa Barbara have miniaturized quadrupole ion traps for the first time ...