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Ancient human-whale relationships are difficult to study because, counterintuitively, whales have been virtually invisible in the archaeological record despite the immense quantities of valuable products they provide. In this review, we explain the reasons for this invisibility, and we also show how an interdisciplinary approach combining archaeological and ethnographic studies with […]
Scientists have made a prototype biocomposite blockade up of a blend of bacteria, fungi and feedstock that can be assembled into human-sized, living structures with self-healing and environmental sensing capabilities.
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New research shows that hearing in a species of orb-weaving spider called the bridge spider (Larinioides sclopetarius) is not constrained by the organism’s body but is extended through outsourcing hearing to its proteinaceous, self-manufactured orb web.
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Despite having a trunk that weighs over 100 kg, elephants mainly feed on
lightweight vegetation. How do elephants manipulate such small items?
In this experimental and theoretical investigation, we filmed elephants at
Zoo Atlanta showing that they can use suction to grab food, performing […]
This pattern, termed “biological motion” in the literature, can
be used as a visual cue, enabling many animals (including humans) to distinguish animate
from inanimate objects. Crucially, even artificially created scrambled stimuli, with no recognizable
structure but that maintains semirigid movement patterns, are perceived […]
Swimming speed of geometrically similar animals is independent of body size. Consequently, required time for a given period has direct correspondence to linear size of animals. In other words, stroke frequency is proportional to mass (f∝m^-1/3) or length (f∝l^-1) for energy efficient swimming.
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This journal club covers CRISPR which is a genome-editing technology, its basic research uses, and real world applications. There are seminal papers that reveal the core concepts and key experiments in the foundational development of CRISPR to its use in treating genetic diseases and engineering agriculture. There will be guest speakers […]
A scientific study published by a UC Berkeley professor (Michael B. Eisen)and a Stanford University professor has called for the elimination of all meat production in order to cut the amount of greenhouse gas emissions and help prevent global warming.
The study details that the resulting drop in methane and […]
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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…