WEIRD ANIMALS
This view of water droplets evaporating from a butterfly’s wing won second place in the competition. Jay McClellan – By Michael Franco 2024 Sep 21 – From a baby tardigrade riding a nematode, to water droplets evaporating from the wing scales of a peacock …
Heavenly Pets Crematorium in Thornaby said Ted’s return was ‘bittersweet’. Photograph: Peter Barron/Newsquest – Beloved pet Ted reunited with grieving North Yorkshire family after drowning mixup – Jamie Grierson 2024 Sep 06 – The myth of cats having nine lives was tested to …
Biobots could one day be engineered to deliver drugs and clear up arterial plaque. Kriegman et al. 2020/PNAS, CC BY-SA– By Peter A Noble, Adjunct Associate Professor of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham and by Alex Pozhitkov, Senior Technical Lead of Bioinformatics, Irell …
The dye that gives foods, drugs, and cosmetics a lemon yellow color can also make mice transparent, as illustrated in this generative image. – By Michael Franco 2024 Sep 05 – In an effort to enhance the research abilities of biologists, Stanford University researchers …
A spider-shaped biohybrid robot is driven by natural impulses from a fungus. Cornell University – By Michael Irving 2024 Aug 31 – Autonomous vehicles are said to be safer than human drivers – but would you trust a mushroom behind the wheel? A new …
Although H5N1 typically infects wild birds, the virus has spilled over into domesticated animal populations, like dairy cows. Peter Cade/Stone via Getty Images – By Jenna Guthmiller, Assistant Professor of Immunology and Microbiology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus Published: 2024 Aug 28 – …
Manuka honey, produced from nectar from the mānuka tree, has potent anticancer properties. Depositphotos – By Paul McClure 2024 Aug 21 – Manuka honey reduced breast cancer cell growth by 84% without harming healthy cells or causing major side effects, according to preliminary studies. …
The extinction event that killed the dinosaurs, 66 million years ago. Mark Stevenson/UIG via Getty Images – By Hans Sues, Senior Research Geologist and Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology, Smithsonian Institution Published: 2024 Aug 12 Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. …
An artist’s impression of what some of the Francevillian biota lifeforms might have looked like. Professor Abderrazzak El Albani of the University of Poitiers, France – By Michael Irving 2024 Aug 03 – Scientists have discovered evidence that an isolated pocket of complex life …
The common “cat poop” parasite, Toxoplasma gondii, could be engineered to deliver drugs to the brain to treat a range of neurological diseases. Depositphotos – By Michael Irving 2024 Aug 01 – Brain parasites are something that most people would naturally want to avoid, …
