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Elephants solve problems with personality

Posted: 25 Jun 2021 04:09 PM PDT

This study makes connections between two sources of individual variation, personality and cognition, in threatened species.

Backscatter breakthrough runs near-zero-power IoT communicators at 5G speeds everywhere

Posted: 25 Jun 2021 02:30 PM PDT

Researchers have found a low-cost way for backscatter radios to support high-throughput communication and 5G-speed Gb/sec data transfer using only a single transistor when previously it required expensive and multiple stacked transistors.

Researchers find the adhesions that build the brain's networks

Posted: 24 Jun 2021 12:26 PM PDT

Researchers have discovered a crucial protein involved in the communication and coordination between astrocytes as they build synapses in the brain. Lacking this molecule, called hepaCAM, astrocytes aren't as sticky as they should be, and tend to stick to themselves rather than forming connections with their fellow astrocytes.