Whiskers help nectar-eating 'acro bats' hover like hummingbirds
From dragonflies to hummingbirds, hovering flight is among the most complex and captivating forms of animal movement—a physiological feat of size, musculature and wing development.
From dragonflies to hummingbirds, hovering flight is among the most complex and captivating forms of animal movement—a physiological feat of size, musculature and wing development.
Evolution
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With striking high-speed video footage, scientists have for the first time detailed how predatory mosquito larvae attack and capture prey in aquatic habitats. Published today in the Annals of the Entomological Society of ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 4, 2022
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Scientists from the Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences at The University of Tsukuba created scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) "snapshots" with a delay between frames much shorter than previously possible. By using ultrafast ...
Condensed Matter
Sep 7, 2022
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A team of physicists at the University of California at Santa Barbara has discovered some of the dynamics involved with active liquid surfaces at the microscopic level when energy is added. In their paper published in the ...
A team of researchers at Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, working with a colleague at Station d'Ecologie Theorique et Experimentale du CNRS, has found evidence that suggests butterflies use their tails to distract predators ...
Experienced cooks can determine when cooking oil has reached the right temperature for deep-frying by inserting moistened chopsticks in the hot oil. Bubbles form on the sticks and the sizzling sound they produce can tell ...
Soft Matter
Jun 7, 2022
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Imagery has come down from Mars capturing a recent flight in which the rotorcraft flew farther and faster than ever before.
Space Exploration
May 27, 2022
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No vertebrate (fish, mammal, bird, reptile, or amphibian) has ever had an odd number of limbs. Despite this "forbidden phenotype," some animals seem to use other body parts as a third or fifth "limb" to move from one place ...
Plants & Animals
May 19, 2022
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Fruit flies synchronize the movements of their heads and bodies to stabilize their vision and fly effectively, according to Penn State researchers who utilized virtual-reality flight simulators. The finding appears to hold ...
Plants & Animals
May 10, 2022
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A first-of-its-kind study led by University of Minnesota Twin Cities researchers reveals why liquid droplets have the ability to erode hard surfaces. The discovery could help engineers design better, more erosion-resistant ...
Condensed Matter
Mar 31, 2022
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