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Worms Do Calculus To Find Meals Thursday, July 03, 2008 - Ehud Rattner Home >> Headlines >> Biology   
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Thanks to salt and hot chili peppers, researchers have found a calculus-computing center that tells a roundworm to go forward toward dinner or turn to broaden the search. It's a computational mechanism, they say, that is similar to what drives hungry college students to a pizza. These behavior-driving calculations, according to a paper published in the July 3 issue of the journal Nature, are done in a tiny, specialized computer inside a primitive roundworm. (source: pmr.uoregon.edu)
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