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From Science Magazine. Every few minutes, a dragonfly dives into water and takes off again, turning several forward somersaults as it ascends, a team of biomechanists reported earlier this year at the annual meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology. The purpose of the behavior? The quick dip cools the insect down, and…
From Science Magazine. When people work together, they can achieve great things. But if they can’t talk, they’re not necessarily smarter than ants, at least according to a study published last year in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Read more: https://scim.ag/3MjT15Z FOOTAGE CREDIT: DREYER ET AL./PNAS #Ants #Science #ScienceShorts
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From Science Magazine. In 2021, researchers analyzed the anatomy and behavior of a tiny American parrot called a parrotlet and peregrine falcons, two species known for their expert footwork. They then designed SNAG (the Stereotyped Nature-Inspired Aerial Grasper)—a pair of jointed legs attached to feet with jointed talons that automatically close around any object they…
From Science Magazine. Tropical forests already cover some of the hottest parts of our planet, and these areas are only expected to get warmer. We know from temperate forests that heat can damage critical processes of individual trees and threaten landscape-scale survival, but how do plants already adapted to high temperatures respond? Staff writer Erik…
From World Science Festival.
From Science Magazine. This splash-resistant cup borrows properties from nature to minimize spilling and sloshing. Read more: https://scim.ag/4rHfji8 CREDITS: (FOOTAGE) MA ET AL./SCIENCE ADVANCES; MARI1408/POND5; (SCRIPT) K. MCLEAN/SCIENCE #Engineering #Science #ScienceShorts
From World Science Festival.
From World Science Festival.
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From Science Magazine. In 1935, French veterinarians observed a rabbit with a peculiar gait. Sometimes, when walking or running, the sauteur d’Alfort rabbit would lift its back legs over its head, scrambling along the ground on its forelimbs like a circus performer. In 2021, scientists pinned down the genetic mutation that likely causes this breed…
From Science Magazine. An early interest in reptile feeding behavior led evolutionary biologist Kurt Schwenk to study the tongues of lizards. Like Charles Darwin’s finches, the various forms and functions of #lizard tongues help piece together the story of how the diversity of reptiles and amphibians evolved. Read more: https://scim.ag/446DrRh CREDITS: (FOOTAGE) KURT SCHWENK; (VIDEO…
From World Science Festival. Nobel laureate Kip Thorne joins Brian Greene to trace a story that runs from the trenches of World War I to the rise of gravitational-wave astronomy—a journey that eventually carried black holes to Hollywood in Interstellar through Thorne’s work with Christopher Nolan. He revisits the improbable path from Einstein’s equations to…
From Science Magazine. African penguins, as well as members of two closely related species, sport individually unique patterns of black dots on their white chest feathers. In a study published in Animal Behaviour, researchers have discovered the birds use these dots like name tags to help identify their mates, perhaps to recognize them amid throngs…
From PBS Eons. To try everything Brilliant has to offer, visit https://brilliant.org/eons It made the front page of the New York Times. Ancient DNA over 2 million years old, retrieved from the frozen dirt of Greenland. It reached back further in time than many scientists used to think was even theoretically possible. And it contained…
From Science Magazine. Scientists capture a unique—and gruesome—example of matricide in the animal kingdom. Read more: https://scim.ag/48dG2ew CREDITS: (FOOTAGE) TAKASUKA ET AL./CURRENT BIOLOGY; (VIDEO PRODUCTION) K. MCLEAN/SCIENCE #Ants #Science #ScienceShorts
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From Science Magazine. Traditional cooling devices like air conditioners rely on refrigerants that can be harmful to humans and the environment. Materials scientist Ichiro Takeuchi and his research group have developed a cooling device free of typical toxic refrigerants, instead relying on a physical property of certain #metal alloys. These alloys produce heat when strained…
From Science Magazine. Shipworms have long been a menace to humankind, sinking ships, undermining piers, and even eating their way through Dutch dikes in the mid-1700s. But in 2019, researchers found the first shipworm that eschewed wood for a very different diet: rock. Researchers first spotted the species (Lithoredo abatanica) in 2006 in thumb-size burrows…
From Science Magazine. A new, long-lasting flu preventative might be more effective at protecting from infection than a seasonal flu vaccine. Read more: https://scim.ag/3KgwINH CREDITS: (ILLUSTRATIONS) C. BICKEL/SCIENCE; CHRIS BURNS; PDB-10 (VIDEO PRODUCTION) M. CANTWELL/SCIENCE #Health #Science #ScienceShorts
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From Science Magazine. For decades, scientists assumed honey bees only lapped up nectar, rapidly dipping their tongues in and out. In 2020, researchers discovered that in some cases, the bees could also use their tongues to suck—but it wasn’t clear when or why they employed one strategy over the other in nature. To find out,…
From Science Magazine. In a Southern California aquarium, a young leopard shark rushes headfirst toward a plastic squid toy and then—as if in a game of chicken—makes a last-minute dash to the left, barely clearing the dangling rubber tentacles. Meanwhile, his tankmate, a California skate, grabs an orange ring with her mouth, rolling the textured…
From Science Magazine. Blowing bubbles isn’t just fun and games for the water anole (Anolis aquaticus), a small, semiaquatic species of anole lizard that’s native to Costa Rica and Panama. In 2024, researchers reported in Biology Letters that the lizards create bubbles underwater and use them like miniature scuba tanks when fleeing predators above the…
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From acollierastro. Support PBS: https://www.pbs.org/about/about-pbs/support-pbs/ Things mentioned: Sid the science kids behind the scenes: At a Loss for Words (reading article): https://www.apmreports.org/episode/2019/08/22/whats-wrong-how-schools-teach-reading Mississippi Miracle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_Miracle Dr. Scott’s Best Bits of Knowledge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uj7vxdAZpiU The Quality Question: Report found here: https://centermil.org/2024/10/16/new-research-report-released/ Impact of Different Types of Television on Young Children’s Executive Function: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9923845/ Link to patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acollierastro…
From PBS Eons. Help understand what you enjoy and what you would want to see us make more of: https://to.pbs.org/2025SurveyEons 66 million years ago, after an asteroid slammed into the Earth and wiped out the non-avian dinosaurs, the world became a dark wasteland. But among the survivors were two distantly-related groups of animals that, on…
From Science Magazine. UC Berkeley biologist Víctor Ortega Jiménez studies the fan structures that ripple bugs use to dance on water. The fans’ ability to passively expand when submerged and contract when removed from the water inspired collaborators at Ajou University to design a similar water striding robot. Read more: https://scim.ag/4nP2nDN CREDITS: (FOOTAGE) CHRIS SCHODT…
From Applied Science. Demonstration of a rotor that is turned by sound pressure. It can spin either direction depending on what type and pattern of sound is applied. I also test different gases (hydrogen, sulfur hexafluoride, carbon dioxide, and helium) in addition to air at different pressures. Dan Russell’s video of the radiometer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGLFJzFt-G4 Academic…
From World Science Festival.
From World Science Festival.
From World Science Festival. Step into the mind of Nobel laureate Alain Aspect, one of the pioneers who turned quantum weirdness into experimental reality. In this conversation with Brian Greene, Aspect retraces the century-long quest to understand quantum entanglement, nonlocality, and Bell’s theorem—ideas that shattered classical physics and redefined reality itself. Winner of the 2022…
From Science Magazine. A research team in 2023 turned the bodies of dead mice into vivid 3D maps of anatomy, with tissues, nerves, and vessels highlighted in color. The technique, which renders the bodies transparent and then exposes them to fluorescent antibodies that label distinct cell types, could help everything from drug development to understanding…
From Science Magazine. For the first time, scientists have documented an unusual spider defense: Some species of arachnids build giant doppelgängers on their webs, creating a frightening deception that scares off would-be killers. Read more: https://scim.ag/3M1b1la FOOTAGE CREDITS: GEORGE OLAH #Spider #Science #ScienceShorts
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From Science Magazine. Seismic waves from earthquakes and nuclear bombs offer insights into the properties and history of our planet’s innards. Read more: https://scim.ag/4oBrATp CREDITS: (FOOTAGE) NATIONAL ARCHIVES, POND5, SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/SCIENCE SOURCE, SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORY; (PHOTO) EVAN NEUHAUS/NATIONAL LIBRARY OF DENMARK; (VIDEO) STEPHANIE CASTILLO; (SCRIPT) M. CANTWELL/SCIENCE; (ILLUSTRATION) C. BICKEL/SCIENCE #Earth #Science #ScienceShorts
From World Science Festival.
From World Science Festival.
From World Science Festival.
From Science Magazine. Using high-speed cameras, UC Berkeley biologist Víctor Ortega Jiménez studies the fan structures that ripple bugs use to dance on water. Read more: https://scim.ag/4nP2nDN CREDITS: (FOOTAGE) CHRIS SCHODT AND ANNIE ROTH; (MUSIC) SILENT ASSASSIN/RAN RAITEN #Biomimicry #Science #ScienceShorts
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From Science Magazine. Goffin’s cockatoos take a tool set to work on a puzzle box, a rare example of pre-planning in the animal kingdom. Read more: https://scim.ag/4qKwa37 FOOTAGE CREDIT: ANTONIO OSUNA-MASCARÓ #Cockatoos #Science #ScienceShorts
From Science Magazine. Much as a train switchyard can steer rail cars to different locations, researchers have engineered protein motors to carry tiny bits of cargo to different locations. In the body, protein motors ferry nutrients and other materials along tiny tube-shaped rails that crisscross cells. Nanotechnologists have made their own versions for years using…
From World Science Festival.
From Science Magazine. Elephants love showering to cool off, and most do so by sucking water into their trunks and spitting it over their bodies. But an elderly pachyderm named Mary has perfected the technique by using a hose as a showerhead, much in the way humans do. The behavior is a remarkable example of…
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