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An interview with Pascal Fries on brain-computer interfaces more

New Study Reveals How Diet Shapes Inherited Behaviour

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Can Aztekin and his team have discovered how oxygen-sensing explains why amphibians regenerate limbs and mammals do not. more

Roxana Zeraati receives two years of funding from the Klaus Tschira Stiftung Boost Fund to study human decision-making in changing, naturalistic settings using gamified tasks, with potential relevance for disrupted decision-making. more

Taisuke Eto has joined the lab of Manuel Spitschan at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics as a two-year Humboldt Fellow. His research asks what determines individual differences in light sensitivity. The findings could help personalize light therapy for conditions such as circadian rhythm sleep disorders and seasonal affective disorder. more

In an unprecedented series of global field experiments launched ten years ago at the Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen, an international research team has tracked real-time evolution in the plant Arabidopsis thaliana. Across 30 locations worldwide — from the Alps to the Negev Desert — researchers sowed the plants, monitored their development, and analyzed genetic changes over several years. Their findings reveal that many populations managed to adapt to local climates within just a few years, while others went extinct, demonstrating how genetic diversity is essential to population survival.

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Interview with Thomas Ott on animal testing and its alternatives more