Snakeskin inspires new, friction-reducing material
A research team led by CU Boulder has designed a new kind of synthetic "skin" as slippery as the scales of a snake.
A research team led by CU Boulder has designed a new kind of synthetic "skin" as slippery as the scales of a snake.
Polymers
Mar 3, 2021
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New research has revealed that the diets of early lizards and snakes, which lived alongside dinosaurs around 100 million years ago, were more varied and advanced than previously thought.
Evolution
Mar 2, 2021
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The Columbia River basin will see an increase in flooding over the next 50 years as a result of climate change, new modeling from Oregon State University indicates.
Environment
Feb 10, 2021
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Sex-specific chromosomes are a dangerous place to be, if you're a gene. Because these chromosomes—Y chromosomes, in humans—do not have a matching chromosome with which to exchange genetic information, they are prone to ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 21, 2021
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Certain snakes have evolved a unique genetic trick to avoid being eaten by venomous snakes, according to University of Queensland research.
Plants & Animals
Jan 15, 2021
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Together with his colleague Hussam Zaher of the University in São Paulo, Senckenberg scientist Krister Smith described the world's oldest known fossils of a python. The almost completely preserved snakes with a length around ...
Paleontology & Fossils
Dec 16, 2020
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Pythons first arrived in Australia from Asia around 23 million years ago and then adapted to their new home by becoming incredibly diverse, according to new research from The Australian National University (ANU).
Plants & Animals
Dec 3, 2020
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Vine snakes are among the most common snakes in peninsular India, found even in many peri-urban areas wherever there is some greenery. This species was believed to be widespread throughout the drier parts of the peninsula ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 16, 2020
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Converting heat into electricity is a property thought to be reserved only for stiff materials like crystals. However, researchers—inspired by the infrared (IR) vision of snakes—developed a mathematical model for converting ...
General Physics
Oct 21, 2020
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In a collaborative effort between scientists and personnel on military bases in 31 states in the continental U.S. and Puerto Rico, researchers surveyed for an infection caused by an emerging fungal pathogen that afflicts ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 8, 2020
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