Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
—Carl Sagan
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- (a) Apparatus. A schematic cutaway of the flight stage is shown.
- (b) Cartoon of the right side of the fly's brain with VS cells highlighted in green.
- (c) Immuno-amplified GFP signal in a fly expressing GFP driven by the Gal4-3a promoter (maximal z projection of a confocal stack). Only the lobula plate is shown. Scale bar represents 20 μm.
- (d) Immuno-amplified GFP signal (green) and a recorded, biocytin-filled VS1 neuron (red; maximal z projection of a two-photon stack). Scale bar is approximately 20 μm.
PASADENA, Calif., Feb. 15 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they have obtained the first recordings of brain-cell activity from an actively flying fruit fly.
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What's up there? How many countries have stuck satellites up into space, how many of those satellites are working, part-working or just bits of junk? This graphic may help to enlighten you.
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How science & engineering degrees used to be a male-dominated field, and now more women are earning science & engineering bachelor's degrees than men.
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A Harvard scientist has created a simplified, intergalactic map of the Milky Way based on the London Underground tube map.
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