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Content: Volume 5, Issue 2

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Can robots teach us about animal flight?

Insights into animal flight control are of great interest not only for biologists but also for designers of bio-inspired flying robots. The common approach in animal flight research is to record the animals while maneuvering with high-speed cameras. The footage is processed to reconstruct the... click to read more

  • Matěj Karásek | Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands
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Reading time 3.5 min
published on Apr 10, 2019
Our own choices generate biases for subsequent decisions

Human judgment and decision-making is strongly shaped by biases. Intriguingly, some of those biases result from the choices we have made in the past. Having committed a categorical judgment, we no longer interpret new information neutrally but are biased to confirm our initial judgment. You... click to read more

  • Bharath Chandra Talluri | PhD student at Department of Neurophysiology and Pathophysiology, University Medical Center Hamburg- Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
  • Anne E. Urai | Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York, USA
  • Tobias H. Donner | Professor at University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
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Reading time 4 min
published on Apr 8, 2019
Environmental change and fruits, vegetables, nuts, and seeds: what is the gap to bridge?

There is now much scientific evidence to suggest that our planet's environment is changing rapidly and that this poses an ever-increasing risk to human health and our food systems. Changes such as agricultural land degradation, water shortages, rising temperatures and changing rainfall patterns can affect... click to read more

  • Carmelia Alae-Carew | Research Assistant at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK
  • Pauline Scheelbeek | Assistant Professor at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK
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Reading time 3.5 min
published on Apr 3, 2019