Worms do calculus to find meals or avoid unpleasantness
Wednesday, July 2, 2008 - 12:28
in Physics & Chemistry
Thanks to salt and hot chili peppers, researchers have found a calculus-computing center that tells a roundworm to go forward toward dinner or turn to broaden the search. It's a computational mechanism, they say, that is similar to what drives hungry college students to a pizza.
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