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From camouflage to timekeeping to wound healing, light-sensing proteins called opsins perform all kinds of jobs in nature beyond helping creatures to see
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Dendritic action potentials exhibit long plateaus of many tens of milliseconds, outliving axonal spikes by an order of magnitude.
Diverse synaptic connections self-organize into neural circuits during brain development. A balance between excitatory and inhibitory synaptic function is required for information processing by these…
Effective decision making in dynamic environments requires flexible evidence accumulation. Although models often express this flexibility as a property of the accumulator, its implementation in the…
Research Matters Staff Writer(s) Bengaluru 27 Jul 2026 For the critically endangered gharial, the day begins according to the brightness of the sky, not the warmth of the sun.
Research Matters Staff Writer(s) Lucknow 27 Jul 2026 Researchers have identified a new species of freshwater shrimp living in the Gomti River, marking the first time this type of crustacean has been…
Remains pulled from the La Brea Tar Pits revealed deformed vertebrae and rare tumors, possible signs of inbreeding among now-extinct saber-toothed cats.
