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Python in Excel isn't just for programmers—4 useful things you can do with it right now

Turn Excel into a lightweight data-science tool for cleaning datasets, standardizing dates, visualizing clusters, and analyzing keywords.
eLife

Beyond the Focus of Expansion: Retinal curl as a functional signal for heading estimation

This study provides an important and biologically plausible account of how human perceptual judgments of heading direction are influenced by a specific pattern of motion in optic flow fields known as ...
eLife

Serotonergic modulation of motor subspace dynamics drives a sleep-independent quiescent state

The dorsal raphe nucleus (DRN) serotonergic (5-HT) system has been implicated in regulating sleep and motor control; however, its specific role remains controversial. In this study, we found that ...
Nature

Development of the quantal properties of evoked and spontaneous synaptic currents at a brain synapse

In central nervous system synapses, neurotransmitters are stored in vesicles 1 and released by fusion of the vesicles with the presynaptic membrane. By analogy with the neuromuscular junction 2,3,4, ...