Limitations of batsmen rankings revealed
Current systems for ranking the best batsmen in test cricket have been bowled out by a new study.
Mathematics
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Male crickets with bigger heads are better fighters, study reveals, echoing ancient Chinese text
Observing and betting on cricket fights has been part of Chinese cultural tradition since at least the Sung Dynasty (A.D. 960-1278). This ancient practice has resulted in quite a detailed list of characteristics that Chinese ...
Jan 7, 2009
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New device based on fly's freakishly acute hearing may find applications in futuristic hearing aids
Even within a phylum so full of mean little creatures, the yellow-colored Ormia ochracea fly is distinguished among other arthropods for its cruelty—at least to crickets. Native to the southeastern U.S. states and Central ...
General Physics
Jul 22, 2014
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Food supply—not 'live fast, die young' mentality—makes male crickets chirpy
Shedding a few pounds might be a good strategy in the human dating game, but for crickets the opposite is true.
Plants & Animals
Nov 1, 2016
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Silent singing crickets still going through the motions
A team of researchers with the University of St Andrews and the University of Cambridge, both in the U.K., has found that singing crickets in Hawaii have evolved to silence their singing apparatus but continue to sing inaudibly. ...
Nature, not nurture, defines cricket social networks
The social lives of crickets are similar generation to generation, even though the insects can't learn directly from their mum and dad.
Plants & Animals
Aug 8, 2016
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Rare cricket family sheds light on extinct Jurassic species' acoustics
World-first research into a rare family of insects will help scientists understand how the common bush-crickets we are familiar with today developed their highly specialised acoustic functions.
Plants & Animals
Mar 16, 2017
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Mother knows best: Females control sperm storage to pick the best father
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have found new evidence to explain how female insects can influence the father of their offspring, even after mating with up to ten males. A team from the University of Exeter has found that female ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 8, 2009
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Mutant mosquitoes lose their appetite for humans
(Phys.org) —What draws a mosquito to bite its host has long been studied from the perspective of the victim—uncovering which smells and chemicals lure the insect in. But researchers at Rockefeller's Laboratory of Neurogenetics ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 10, 2013
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Virus fans the flames of desire in infected crickets
Love may be a battlefield, but most wouldn't expect the fighters to be a parasitic virus and its cricket host. Just like a common cold changes our behavior, sick crickets typically lose interest in everyday activities. But ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 7, 2014
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