Time Might Not Be a Fundamental Part of Reality

Time feels like the most basic feature of reality. Seconds tick, days pass and everything from planetary motion to human ...
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Study on brain navigation reveals function of an unconventional electrical-signaling mode in neurons

To navigate, the brain must convert changing sensations into a map-like sense of the world, which remains stable as the body moves. A new study finds that the fly brain sometimes performs the ...
Machine Design

Basics of Rolling-Ring Linear Motion

Rolling-ring drives are friction drives that convert the constant rotary motion of a plain shaft into a traversing action that moves an attached carriage. Used in positioning and reciprocating ...
Physics World

Modelling the motion of confined crowds could help prevent crushing incidents

Mass gathering The crowd at the San Fermìn festival in Pamplona, Spain. (Courtesy: Bartolo Lab, ENS de Lyon) The team analysed high-resolution video captured from two locations above the gathering of ...
The Conversation

Do you hear what I see? How blindness changes how you process the sound of movement

This work was supported by NIH National Eye Institute Grants R01EY014645 (to I.F.) Woon Ju Park receives funding from an NIH National Eye Institute Grant K99EY034546 and was supported by a Weill ...