Recording Breaking Speed: World’s Fastest Ant Clocked at 855mm/s, an Incredible 47 Strides/s
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Saharan Silver Ants Are World’s Fastest Ants According to Noël Coward, mad dogs and Englishmen are the only creatures that go out in the midday…
New research from Aarhus University shows that ants inhibit at least 14 different plant diseases. The small insects secrete antibiotics from glands in the body….
A new liquid-cell technology allows scientists to see living biological materials and systems in three dimensions under an electron microscope, according to researchers at Penn…
A new study on the long-term relationship between humans and clams in B.C.’s Salish Sea is helping to inform modern marine resource management. Researchers from…
The fungi that grow on fermented foods strongly influence their tastes, yet the evolutionary origins of those fungi aren’t well understood. Experimental findings published this…
Viruses are non-living creatures, consisting of genetic material encased in a protein coat. Once the virus infects a living organism, it can replicate itself and…
Piranha fish swap old teeth for new ones simultaneously Piranha fish have a powerful bite. Their teeth help them shred through the flesh of their…
A new genetic engineering tool will help open the floodgates of microbial metabolite applications. Secondary metabolites – the compounds produced by microbes to mediate internal…
For many years, scientists thought that mitochondria, the energy-generating cores of living cells, functioned similarly to home batteries, producing energy via a chemical process within…
Reproduction and migration are the two most demanding tasks in a bird’s life, and the vast majority of species separate them into different times of…
New research from the University of Chicago and University of North Carolina shows how species of birds form long-term bonds to raise their young more…
A research team from the MIPT Center for Molecular Mechanisms of Aging and Age-Related Diseases has collaborated with colleagues from the U.S., Canada, France, and…
Traumatic brain injuries (TBI), including concussions, can be caused by anything from sports injuries to battlefield trauma. And they can have fatal or lasting effects….
Compounds called cyclophospholipids would have held up against the planet’s harsh conditions, helping the first cells form and proliferate. Researchers must dissect the building blocks…
Leaves display a remarkable range of forms from flat sheets with simple outlines to the cup-shaped traps found in carnivorous plants. A general question in…
It is one of the most unique things you will see in the wild. A humpback whale swims in a circular pattern while blowing bubbles…
Start thinking about numbers and they can become large very quickly. The diameter of the universe is about 8.8×1023 km and the largest number with…
Neurons are not randomly arranged in the human brain. In the cortex, they are organized in interconnected clusters with high intrinsic connectivity. This modular connectivity…