A chemical used in the production of toilet paper and 'forever chemicals' have been found in the bodies of orcas in B.C. , including the endangered southern resident killer whales.
Plants & Animals
Jan 12, 2023
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A grasshopper hatched in a crowded environment may look and behave differently than a grasshopper hatched in isolation—even if they have the same genes. The mechanism of this density-dependent phenomenon, called polyphenism, ...
Ecology
Dec 12, 2022
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A new Tel Aviv University study has discovered that the female locust has superpowers. The findings of the study reveal that the female locust's central nervous system has elastic properties, allowing her to stretch up to ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 7, 2022
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A paper by researchers in the University at Buffalo's Department of Mathematics that could impact the way neuron-to-neuron communications are mapped was recently published in Communications Physics.
Mathematics
Dec 1, 2022
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Neurons are the fundamental units of the brain and nervous system, the cells responsible for receiving sensory input from the external world, for sending motor commands to our muscles, and for transforming and relaying the ...
Bio & Medicine
Nov 29, 2022
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Octopuses are not much like humans—they are invertebrates with eight arms, and more closely related to clams and snails. Still, they have evolved complex nervous systems with as many neurons as in the brains of dogs, and ...
Evolution
Nov 28, 2022
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Fruit flies can quickly compensate for catastrophic wing injuries, researchers found, maintaining the same stability after losing up to 40% of a wing. This finding could inform the design of versatile robots, which face the ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 18, 2022
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The development of our nervous system in the womb and during the first years of life is a highly complicated process: Nerve cells proliferate by cell division, specialize, change their position in the tissue and interconnect ...
Biotechnology
Nov 15, 2022
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Beer is one of the oldest and most popular beverages in the world, with some people loving and others hating the distinct, bitter taste of the hops used to flavor its many varieties. But an especially "hoppy" brew might have ...
Biochemistry
Nov 7, 2022
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Microglia are a type of immune cell that works as a "janitor" to the central nervous system that clears out dead cells and other debris. But when these janitor cells themselves die, other microglia don't do the cleaning up ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 25, 2022
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