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The cost of memory: how organisms balance thinking and sensing

The study reveals that the amount of available resources determines whether an organism relies on its memory or makes decisions based on current sensory input. Memory becomes most useful when sensory information is moderately uncertain, providing a significant improvement in performance.

SourceInstitute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo·JournalPhysical Review Letters·DateJul 29, 2026

Organelles grow in random bursts

Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis demonstrated that eukaryotic cells can control organelle size by exhibiting random bursts of growth, maintaining a narrow window of precision within this noise., The study suggests a biophysical mechanism for the robustness and universality of organelle size control.

SourceWashington University in St. Louis·JournalPhysical Review Letters·TypeExperimental study·DateJan 6, 2023

Tyrone Duncan to be awarded SIAM's W. T. and Idalia Reid Prize

Dr. Tyrone Duncan will receive the W. T. and Idalia Reid Prize for his fundamental contributions to nonlinear filtering, stochastic control, and probability geometry. The prize recognizes his work in differential geometry, probability, stochastic control, and statistics.

SourceSociety for Industrial and Applied Mathematics·DateJun 19, 2013
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