Posts by: EmmaLapinsky
Three appear important for getting the female’s attention, he and his colleagues report today in Current Biology. All three are aldehydes, which are responsible for lots of odors. The three include one known to be an insect sex pheromone and another that smells like a pear. Females spend time sniffing or […]
Hao Yan studied chemistry at Shandong University, China. He obtained his PhD in Chemistry under Professor N. C. Seeman, New York University in 2001. Following a period as an Assistant Research Professor at Duke University in the Computer Science department, he joined Arizona State University as Assistant Professor in Department of […]
Lentink’s team turned to the humble pigeon in order to discover these secrets of avian flight. “[They’re] under-appreciated fliers,” Lentink told Popular Mechanics. In a report published in Science Robotics, Lentink and his team discovered that pigeons—as well as most other flying birds—do not use individual muscles to control each of […]
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I imagine that the neurological circuits underlying these processes are governed by both 2d spacing maps with their brains as…
to reduce the impact of car accidents, it may be possible to study the force diverting physics of cockroaches to…
you see this type of head-bobbing stability in many avian creatures related to pigeons like chickens. the head ability to…
not like they taught horses how to run! this is an example of convergent evolution where both sea creatures and…
The brain functions in a similar way with neuronal connections. our brains are able to utilize the multiplicity of connections…