A decade ago a new idea was brought into the general scientific community—shedding water from condensers was more efficient by using surface tension to make microscopic water droplets "jump" off the surface. The idea took ...
Condensed Matter
May 28, 2019
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Spiders that pretend to be ants to fool predators have an unusual problem when it comes to sex.
Plants & Animals
Feb 27, 2019
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Lactation is the production and secretion of milk for the young and is a mammalian attribute. However, there have been several examples of milk provisioning in non-mammals. In a study published in the journal Science on November ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 30, 2018
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Scientists have been analysing the way birds jump when they take-off to help us understand why they simply don't just fall over when attempting to fly.
Plants & Animals
Oct 30, 2018
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An everyday occurrence spotted when we turn on the tap to brush our teeth has baffled engineers for centuries—why does the water splay when it hits the sink before it heads down the plughole?
Soft Matter
Aug 7, 2018
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Scientists have unlocked the secrets of how some predatory spiders catch their prey whilst hunting by successfully training one to jump different distances and heights for the first time.
Plants & Animals
May 8, 2018
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While most arachnophiles will likely find tiny spider dancers who can "swagger like Jagger" entertaining, it's more than the dance that captures the fascination of one NSF-funded University of Cincinnati researcher.
Plants & Animals
Jan 25, 2017
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"Jumping genes" are ubiquitous. Every domain of life hosts these sequences of DNA that can "jump" from one position to another along a chromosome; in fact, nearly half the human genome is made up of jumping genes. Depending ...
Biotechnology
Jun 13, 2016
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Deep within your DNA, a tiny parasite lurks, waiting to pounce from its perch and land in the middle of an unsuspecting healthy gene. If it succeeds, it can make you sick.
Biotechnology
Nov 12, 2015
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Scientists have discovered a previously unknown wellspring of genetic diversity in humans, chimps and most other primates. This diversity arises from a new component of itinerant sections of genetic code known as jumping ...
Biotechnology
Oct 22, 2015
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