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- Unusual fossil reveals last meal of prehistoric pollinator
- How cells control the physical state of embryonic tissues
- The indestructible light beam
- New Jurassic flying reptile reveals the oldest opposed thumb
- Life on Venus? First we need to know more about molecules in the atmosphere
- Making music from spider webs
- Rapid evolution in foxgloves pollinated by hummingbirds
| Unusual fossil reveals last meal of prehistoric pollinator Posted: 12 Apr 2021 11:27 AM PDT An amber fossil of a Cretaceous beetle has shed some light on the diet of one of the earliest pollinators of flowering plants. |
| How cells control the physical state of embryonic tissues Posted: 12 Apr 2021 09:12 AM PDT In the earliest stage of life, animals undergo some of their most spectacular physical transformations. Once merely blobs of dividing cells, they begin to rearrange themselves into their more characteristic forms, be they fish, birds or humans. Understanding how cells act together to build tissues has been a fundamental problem in physics and biology. |
| Posted: 12 Apr 2021 08:48 AM PDT For any disordered medium (such as a sugar cube, for example), special light waves can be found which are practically not changed by the medium, only attenuated. These 'scattering invariant light modes' could play a major role in new imaging technologies. |
| New Jurassic flying reptile reveals the oldest opposed thumb Posted: 12 Apr 2021 08:47 AM PDT A new 160-million-year-old arboreal pterosaur species, dubbed 'Monkeydactyl', has the oldest true opposed thumb - a novel structure previously not known in pterosaurs. |
| Life on Venus? First we need to know more about molecules in the atmosphere Posted: 12 Apr 2021 07:18 AM PDT To confirm life on other planets, we need to detect far more molecules in their atmospheres than we currently do to rule out non-biological chemical processes. |
| Posted: 12 Apr 2021 05:45 AM PDT Spiders are master builders, expertly weaving strands of silk into intricate 3D webs. If humans could enter the spider's world, they could learn about web construction, arachnid behavior and more. Now, scientists report they have translated the complex structure of a web into music, which could have applications ranging from better 3D printers, to cross-species communication and otherworldly musical compositions. |
| Rapid evolution in foxgloves pollinated by hummingbirds Posted: 12 Apr 2021 05:45 AM PDT Researchers have found common foxgloves brought to the Americas have rapidly evolved to change flower length in the presence of a new pollinator group, hummingbirds. |
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