Scientists from the RIKEN Center for Brain Science (CBS) and collaborators in Japan have discovered particular neurons in the brain that monitor whether predictions made by fish actually come true. By ...

IQuarium principal investigators Katie Wasserman and Audrey Roy discussing flow field imaging at MIT's Marine Hydrodynamics Water Tunnel. View Slideshow CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts -- Visitors to MIT ...

We've taken in another pet. But unlike our pet pooch, Cassie, and our pet hermit crab, Speedy, our latest pet doesn't need to be fed unless you count electricity as a meal. That's because we now have ...

For a few minutes, I saw the Moscone Center — and everyone inside it — under water. Sharks and small fish even swam past me as if I wasn't there. And then, all of a sudden, I stood up straight and ...

Scientists have created a virtual reality system that allows fruit flies to fly around a virtual pillar, and zebrafish to swim with aliens from the video game Space Invaders. The goal is not to give ...

Seeing how it is World Ocean Day (and being the geek that I am), I'd like to follow up my virtual ecology post with this: virtual schools of fish. While real-world fish need to worry about climate ...

From fish to machines: The natural “control law” of fish was embedded in swarms of robotic cars, drones, and boats. Fish are masters of coordinated motion. Schools of fish have no leader, yet ...