ScienceDaily.com: Worms Do Calculus To Find Meals Or Avoid Unpleasantness

by ryanborja | July 5, 2008 at 03:52 pm
216 views | 0 Recommendations | 0 comments

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.

Click here to read the article

Advertisement

Comments (0)

This story was created over 3 months ago, the comment thread is now closed.

NowPublic on Facebook

What is NowPublic?

NowPublic lets people work together to cover news events around the world.

Find out more

Most Recommended Stories in Environment

 

closeSign in to NowPublic

is reporting from