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How Rats Avoid Being Fooled by Their Own Whiskers
15.01.2026
Brain & Behavior

Japanese researchers and a Weizmann Institute team reveal an engineering marvel inside rat whisker follicles

Yellow and red, showing the most frequently scanned areas, reveal the differences in scanning strategies employed by the sighted people (left) and the blind (right) while using ASenSub
Sight through Touch: The Secret Is in the Hand Movements
08.06.2021
Brain & Behavior

Recreating the “feel” of an object as participants move their fingers enables them to use their ingrained sensing strategies

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The Know-How Kids

Ada Yonath, photographed for the L’Oréal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science, 2008. Credit: Micheline Pelletier/Corbis

Prof. Ada Yonath, Nobel Laureate and a Model of Scientific Perseverance, Has Passed Away

Credit: XENON Collaboration/Luigi Di Carlo

A New Window on the Universe: Solar Neutrinos Measured at Record-Low Energies

Intestinal organoids grown in the lab from stem cells derived from patients. Each sphere represents one organoid. Photo: Petro Busko, a PhD student in Biton’s lab

When the Gut Can’t Forget: A New Mechanism Promoting Inflammatory Bowel Disease

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Ada Yonath, photographed for the L’Oréal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science, 2008. Credit: Micheline Pelletier/Corbis
31.08.2026
Prof. Ada Yonath, Nobel Laureate and a Model of Scientific Perseverance, Has Passed Away
Credit: XENON Collaboration/Luigi Di Carlo
31.08.2026
A New Window on the Universe: Solar Neutrinos Measured at Record-Low Energies
Intestinal organoids grown in the lab from stem cells derived from patients. Each sphere represents one organoid. Photo: Petro Busko, a PhD student in Biton’s lab
26.08.2026
When the Gut Can’t Forget: A New Mechanism Promoting Inflammatory Bowel Disease
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