Ants detect and monitor low levels of moonlight to navigate at night, new study shows
Nocturnal bull ants can use low-level moonlight to navigate at night, according to new research.
Nocturnal bull ants can use low-level moonlight to navigate at night, according to new research.
Plants & Animals
Jun 12, 2024
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A group of animal biologists and chemists at the Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules (ITbM) at Nagoya University in central Japan, in collaboration with Toyota Boshoku Corporation and Niigata University, have identified ...
Ecology
Oct 27, 2022
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When NASA's salt-seeking Aquarius instrument ascends to the heavens this June, the moon above its launch site at California's Vandenberg Air Force Base won't be in the seventh house, and Jupiter's latest alignment with Mars ...
Earth Sciences
May 12, 2011
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For most animals, the structure of their day—and indeed their year—depends on the light-dark cycle. These regular and rhythmic cycles in the length of days tell animals when they should be foraging, when they should be ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 3, 2019
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Parents' choices about when to breed have lifelong consequences for offspring. For the sixbar wrasse, the flexibility of babies to delay their critical swim towards adulthood frees adults to spawn more often, say ecologists ...
Ecology
Dec 18, 2017
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The heart of the Exospheric Mass Spectrometer (EMS) is visible in this image of the key sensor that will study the abundance of lunar water and water ice for upcoming missions to the Moon.
Space Exploration
Jul 7, 2021
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NASA has set its sights on the moon, aiming to send astronauts back to the lunar surface by 2026 and establish a long-term presence there by the 2030s. But the moon isn't exactly a habitable place for people.
Space Exploration
Jun 13, 2024
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