The present review draws together wide-ranging studies performed over the last decades
that catalogue the effects of artificial-light-at-night (ALAN) upon living species and their …

The rapid development of biophotonics and biomedical sciences makes a high demand on
photonic structures to be interfaced with biological systems that are capable of manipulating …

A new theory about the origins of consciousness that finds learning to be the driving force in
the evolutionary transition to basic consciousness. What marked the evolutionary transition …

Para Stefano Mancuso, o verdadeiro potencial para a solução dos problemas que nos
afligem está nas plantas. Sua autonomia energética, ligada a uma arquitetura cooperativa …

All living cells interact dynamically with a constantly changing world. Eukaryotes, in
particular, evolved radically new ways to sense and react to their environment. These …

How can single cells without nervous systems perform complex behaviours such as
habituation, associative learning and decision making, which are considered the hallmark of …

Although plants are essentially sessile in nature, these organisms are very much in tune with
their environment and are capable of a variety of movements. This may come as a surprise …

Vascular plants are integrated into coherent bodies via plant-specific synaptic adhesion
domains, action potentials (APs) and other means of long-distance signalling running …

Since antiquity, the sense of smell (olfaction) is considered as a distance sense, just like
sight and hearing. Conversely, the sense of taste (gustation) is thought to operate by direct …

Diverse light-sensing organs (ie, eyes) have evolved across animals. Interestingly, several
subcellular analogs have been found in eukaryotic microbes. 1 All of these systems have a …