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Birds Lose Color Vision in Twilight

by mokosam on November 18, 2009

Research at the Lund University Vision Group can now show that the color vision of birds stops working considerably earlier in the course of the day than was previously believed, in fact, in the twilight. Birds need between 5 and 20 times as much light as humans to see colors.
It has long been known that [...]

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Truth About Give And Take In Social Situations: The More You Take The More You Lose

by mokosam on December 18, 2008

In everyday social exchanges, being mean to people has a lot more impact than being nice, research at the University of Chicago has shown.
Feeling slighted can have a bigger difference on how a person responds than being the recipient of perceived generosity, even if the net value of the social transaction is the same, the [...]

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Without Glial Cells, Animals Lose Their Senses

by mokosam on November 9, 2008

Sensory neurons have always put on a good show. But now, it turns out, they`ll be sharing the credit. In groundbreaking research to appear in the October 31 issue of Science, Rockefeller University scientists show that while neurons play the lead role in detecting sensory information, a second type of cell, the glial cell, pulls [...]

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