Daily Archives: May 16, 2018

How the seasnake lost its bands

Across Europe, the Industrial Revolution of the early 1800s blackened the trees with soot. That shift in color exerted strong evolutionary pressure on many species of insects that were camouflaged against natural tree-trunks but very obvious (to

Asymmetric vestibular stimulation reveals persistent disruption of motion perception in unilateral vestibular lesions

A unilateral vestibular lesion (UVL), typically due to acute vestibular neuritis, induces vertigo, imbalance, asymmetry of the vestibule-ocular reflex (VOR) and problems with the perception of self motion. This study examined the question of whether the disruption