Archive: 05/10/2007

Frog muscles survive big sleep

A rare Australian frog that burrows underground for a summer siesta resurfaces more than nine months later in just as good a shape as before its rest, according to UQ research.

May 10, 2007 4.5 / 5 (4) 0

Wild wheat shows its muscles

A grain of wild wheat has everything required for plant propagation - even tools for drilling into the soil. It uses its two awns for this: in the dry daytime air, these bristles bend outwards. At night, dampened ...

May 10, 2007 5 / 5 (6) 0

Remnants of ice age linger in gravity

Researchers have uncovered a large area of low but increasing gravity over North America – the lingering effect of the last ice age when sheets of ice sometimes three kilometres thick covered nearly all of Canada and the ...

May 10, 2007 4.1 / 5 (15) 0