Killer flies: how brain size affects hunting strategy in the insect world
09 February 2016Cambridge researchers are studying what makes a brain efficient and how that affects behaviour in insects.
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Cambridge researchers are studying what makes a brain efficient and how that affects behaviour in insects.
The largest quantitative study of howling, and first to use machine learning, defines different howl types and finds that wolves use these types more or...
How does the brain make connections, and how does it maintain them? Cambridge neuroscientists and mathematicians are using a variety of techniques to understand how...
Tumours kill off surrounding cells to make room to grow, according to new research from the University of Cambridge. Although the study was carried out...
Today, one of the great collections of art in the UK celebrates its bicentenary. Two hundred years to the day of his death, the Fitzwilliam Museum has revealed...
The lack of an evidence base in the donor-funded response to Syrian migrant crisis means funds may be allocated to ineffective interventions, say researchers, who...
Researchers have built the first biologically realistic mathematical model of how the brain plans and learns when faced with a complex decision-making process.
The experiences of British male converts to Islam have been captured in a unique report launched today by the University of Cambridge.
Today, we commence a month-long focus on neuroscience. To begin, Ed Bullmore, Bill Harris and Dervila Glynn describe how this area of research is transforming...
Researchers have found that glacial erosion and melting ice caps both played a key role in driving the observed global increase in volcanic activity at...