News tagged with swimming worm

Long-standing question about swimming in elastic liquids, answered

A biomechanical experiment conducted at the University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science has answered a long-standing theoretical question: Will microorganisms swim faster or slower in elastic fluids? ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 18, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Scientists discover bioluminescent 'green bombers' from the deep sea

(PhysOrg.com) -- In the latest proof that the oceans continue to offer remarkable findings and much of their vastness remains to be explored, scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Aug 20, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 3




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Sandfish lizard slithers into science spotlight

In less than a second, a sandfish lizard can dig its way into the sand and disappear. Blink and you miss it. The sandfish's slithering moves are inspiring new robotic moves that could one day help search-and-rescue crews ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Mar 20, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Animal diseases increasingly plague the oceans

When dead sea mammals started washing ashore on Canada's west coast in greater numbers, marine biologist Andrew Trites was distressed to find that domestic animal diseases were killing them.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 20, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Obstacles no barrier to higher speeds for worms, researchers find

Obstacles in an organism's path can help it to move faster, not slower, researchers from New York University's Applied Math Lab at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences have found through a series ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Study of diving beetles suggest sperm evolution may be driven by changes in female reproductive organs

Studying female reproductive tracts and sperm in diving beetles (Dytiscidae), researchers from the University of Arizona and Syracuse University have obtained a glimpse into a bizarre and amazing world of spe ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New species of 'spiral poo worms' found in the Atlantic

They could be mistaken for exotic blooms, but the colorful creatures captured in the depths of the Atlantic Ocean actually belong to a family of recently discovered acorn worms.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 22, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1 | with audio podcast

New creatures from the deep identified

(PhysOrg.com) -- Strange deep sea creatures discovered by Aberdeen researchers have been confirmed as three new species previously unknown to science.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 16, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Giant robotic worm mimics C. elegans nematode (w/ video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- A University of Leeds researcher has drawn inspiration from biology to build a giant robotic worm that can wiggle its way around obstacles.

Electronics / Robotics

created Jul 06, 2011 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

New fossils demonstrate that powerful eyes evolved in a twinkling (w/ video)

Palaeontologists have uncovered half-a-billion-year-old fossils demonstrating that primitive animals had excellent vision.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Jun 29, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (10) | comments 140 | with audio podcast

Trying out carbon to treat toxic sediment

On the surface, Canal Creek looks like a postcard Chesapeake Bay tributary, with red-winged blackbirds swooping over the tidal marsh lining its banks.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 10, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Remote Antarctic island is 'richer in biodiversity than the Galapagos'

Antarctica's remote South Georgia Island boasts 90 percent of the world's fur seals, half of the world's elephant seals, is navigated by vast populations of blue whales, sperm whales and killer whales, and has beaches that ...

Biology / Ecology

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