Nature

an experiment

Why is blight so far?

Like it sounds so simple.

They had no idea.

But now the data's...

I find this not only refreshing, but at some level astounding.

Nature. .... Nature.

Welcome back to the Nature podcast.

This week on the show, we're looking at the artificial intelligence recreating our sense of place, and liquid crystals that can deliver cargo.

Plus a first-hand account of dealing with depression as an academic.

This is the Nature podcast for the 10th of May 2018.

I'm Adam Nevy.

And I'm Charmany Bandelle.

Back in 2014, the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine

was granted for the discovery of

cells which constitute a positioning system in the brain. Some of the key cells in question are called grid cells,

special neurons which activate depending on where an animal is. It's sort of like an internal

mental map created by multiple grid cells firing in geometric

grid-like patterns. Despite winning a Nobel Prize, there's still a lot we don't know about this

neural GPS, and grid cells can be tricky to study experimentally. Now, neuroscientists from

University College London, or UCL, have teamed up with machine learning experts

...