A team of Florida State University researchers led by Assistant Professor of Mathematics Bhargav Karamched has discovered that in a foraging ant’s search for food, it will leave pheromone trails connecting its colony to multiple food sources when they’re available, successfully creating the first model that explains the phenomenon of trail formation to multiple food sources.

Researchers have developed a novel deep-learning-powered, end-to-end metalens imaging system that addresses the limitations of traditional metalenses, such as chromatic and angular aberrations. By integrating a mass-produced metalens with an advanced image restoration framework driven by deep learning, the system achieves high-resolution, aberration-free, full-color imaging. This breakthrough combines scalable fabrication techniques with artificial intelligence to produce compact, efficient, and high-quality imaging systems suitable for a wide range of applications, from consumer electronics to virtual and augmented reality.

Mountain lions in greater Los Angeles are proactively shifting their activity to avoid interacting with cyclists, hikers, joggers and other recreationists, finds a UC Davis study.

From the Carnival in Rio de Janeiro to the shoulders of pirates: parrots are synonymous with colour for people across the world. In a new study published in the journal Science, scientists from The University of Hong Kong, together with an international team led by scientists from BIOPOLIS-CIBIO (Portugal) uncover for the first time a ‘switch’ in the DNA of parrots that controls their wide gamut of colours.

Attempts to obtain eggs and offspring using oocytes in ovary have been made for keeping desirable traits in livestock, preserving human fertility, etc. Ovarian transplantation, one of those methods, has been established and widely used. Although transplantation to different species is expected to bring benefits, it is still too difficult to produce offspring. Researchers in Niigata and Toyama, Japan developed a novel system using xenotransplantation (transplantation of organs from one species to different one), and succeeded in producing offspring.