Reward or punishment? New study reveals learning processes in the fruit fly brain

Researchers at Leipzig University have gained important insights into learning mechanisms in the brain of the fruit fly ...

Neuroscientists discovered that some memories are consolidated not only because something was important, but because the brain interprets learning as a minor ener…

Brain study reveals memories stick when learning triggers a brief “energy emergency” in glucose-sensing neurons.
The Atlantic

How learning to fly helped ground me

In May 2022, an air-traffic controller in Florida received a frantic call. The pilot of a single-engine Cessna 208 had collapsed, leaving the sole passenger—with no experience at all flying a plane—to ...
Kaleido Scope

Deep machine-learning speeds assessment of fruit fly heart aging and disease, a model for human disease

Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham now show a way to significantly cut the time needed for that analysis while utilizing more of the heart region, using deep learning and ...
Yahoo

Meet the robot learning to fly, in hopes of saving lives

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. STORY: :: Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia Move over Iron Man - this is iRonCub, a humanoid robot learning to fly. Researchers are ...
SlashGear

5 Ways To Learn How To Fly An Airplane

Humanity has long dreamt about flying, and now that we can do it easily, many kids and adults still dream about becoming a pilot. While more accessible today than ever before, for many getting a pilot ...
The Business Journals

Learning to fly

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. One might be tempted to use lots of flight metaphors in ...