Space station supplies launched with a pizza delivery for 7
Northrop Grumman's latest space station delivery includes pizza for seven.
Space Exploration
Aug 11, 2021
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Thinking without a brain: Studies in brainless slime molds reveal that they use physical cues to decide where to grow
If you didn't have a brain, could you still figure out where you were and navigate your surroundings? Thanks to new research on slime molds, the answer may be "yes." Scientists from the Wyss Institute at Harvard University ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 15, 2021
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100 million years in amber: Researchers discover oldest fossilized slime mold
Most people associate the idea of creatures trapped in amber with insects or spiders, which are preserved lifelike in fossil tree resin. An international research team of palaeontologists and biologists from the Universities ...
Archaeology
Jan 8, 2020
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Meet 'le blob' Paris zoo's new star attraction
The Paris zoo's latest attraction is a brainless, eyeless, single-celled organism with no limbs or stomach but more than 700 genders.
Plants & Animals
Oct 17, 2019
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Ancient fossils reveal fresh clues about early life on land
Slime has been present on Earth for a very long time—almost 2 billion years, according to a recent reassessment of fossil evidence.
Paleontology & Fossils
Oct 10, 2019
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Life-changing magic of tidying up—complex structural organization studied in slime mold
Researchers in Japan think they have found an answer to the fundamental biological question of how individual cells know which way to position themselves within a complex, multicellular body. Depending on a cell's purpose ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 21, 2019
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Why bees soared and slime flopped as inspirations for systems engineering
Bees? Great. Ants? Hit or miss. Slime mold amoebas? Fail. Though nature offers excellent design inspirations in some information technology systems, in other systems, it can bomb.
Plants & Animals
Feb 19, 2018
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Loose skin and 'slack volume' protect Hagfish from shark bites
Chapman University and University of Guelph have published new research showing how hagfishes survive an initial attack from predators before they release large volumes of slime to defend themselves. Because the slime is ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 14, 2017
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Stiff fibres spun from slime
Nature is an excellent teacher – even for material scientists. Researchers, including scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, have now observed a remarkable mechanism by which polymer materials ...
Materials Science
Oct 17, 2017
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Dawkins' fabled cooperative gene discovered in microbes
Geneticists from the Universities of Manchester and Bath are celebrating the discovery of the elusive 'greenbeard gene' that helps explain why organisms are more likely to cooperate with some individuals than others
Biotechnology
Mar 9, 2017
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