Few animals other than humans can move in sync with music
It started with a sulfur-crested cockatoo named Snowball.
Plants & Animals
May 20, 2014
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News tagged with rhythm
Electrical activity in living organisms mirrors electrical fields in atmosphere
Most electrical activity in vertebrates and invertebrates occurs at extremely low frequencies, and the origin—and medical potential—of these frequencies have eluded scientists. Now a Tel Aviv University study provides ...
Other
May 5, 2020
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Plants can be larks or night owls just like us
Plants have the same variation in body clocks as that found in humans, according to new research that explores the genes governing circadian rhythms in plants.
Plants & Animals
Dec 19, 2020
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Tel Aviv University researcher says plants can see, smell, feel, and taste
Increasingly, scientists are uncovering surprising biological connections between humans and other forms of life. Now a Tel Aviv University researcher has revealed that plant and human biology is much closer than has ever ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 30, 2012
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Pulses raised as new study reveals secrets of the plant that keeps people calm
Chemical secrets of a plant used throughout history for its calming effects have been revealed in new research.
Biochemistry
Jun 25, 2018
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Chimpanzees help trace the evolution of human speech back to ancient ancestors
One of the most promising theories for the evolution of human speech has finally received support from chimpanzee communication, in a study conducted by a group of researchers led by the University of Warwick.
Plants & Animals
May 26, 2020
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How did evolution optimize circadian clocks?
(Phys.org) —From cyanobacteria to humans, many terrestrial species have acquired circadian rhythms that adapt to sunlight in order to increase survival rates. Studies have shown that the circadian clocks in some organisms ...
Why do birds migrate at night?
It was a puzzle about birds.
Plants & Animals
Sep 12, 2019
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Get rhythm -- why the key to finding music you like is rhythm, not genre
So close and yet so wrong - you might love heavy metal like Metallica but your music platform suggests you should also like the Sixties sound of The Doors, simply because both bands are classified as rock.
General Physics
May 20, 2010
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Mice suffer from a decrease in biological fitness if their internal clock is mixed up
Mice with deviant internal rhythms due to a genetic mutation have fewer offspring and shorter life spans than normal conspecifics whose rhythms follow the 24-hr cycle of a day more accurately. This discovery was made by a ...
Evolution
Dec 30, 2015
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