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Cognesia Simulations: Attempting to Model Membrane-Potential Responses to a Moving Grating in Drosophila

Cognesia is a computer program used to simulate the physiological controls of a Drosophila brain, allowing for personalized controls of voltage, electrical nodes, chemical messengers, and physiological state. The simulation primarily consists of the visual apparatus, the optic lobe, and the central brain, with 15.09 million directed connections between neuron…

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Scientists Grew Microbes in Mars-Like Conditions for 160 Days. They Didn’t Just Survive, They Thrived

An experiment shows that salt-loving microorganisms can reproduce under some of the harsh conditions thought possible beneath Mars' surface, raising new questions about whether life could exist there today. Mars is cold, dry, and almost airless. But in a laboratory on Earth, scientists recreated some of its harshest conditions and…

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