WEIRD ANIMALS
The sugar found in stingless bee honey has a raft of health benefits. DianitaKartika/Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 4.0 – By Paul McClure 2024 Oct 27 – Honey from stingless bees contains large amounts of a unique sugar that’s not a major component of any …
Black is beautiful. Akeem Ranmal/500px via Getty Images – By Elizabeth Carlen, Living Earth Collaborative Postdoctoral Fellow, Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis and by Tyus Williams, Ph.D. Candidate in Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley Published: 2024 …
Family gathering: A herd grazing on the Mongolian Steppe. Photograph: Perou – The Observer – Horses – Interview Mike Power – Humans and horses have been entwined throughout history, one could not have thrived without the other, according to a new book that …
Entitled “The Demolition Squad,” this striking image by Germany’s Ingo Arndt shows a red wood ant doing its part to help dismember a blue ground beetle. Ingo Arndt Photography View 13 Images – By Michael Franco 2024 Oct 10 – For the 60th year …
The hole-digging, seed-bomb-depositing, Plantolin pangolin-inspired robot. University of Surrey – By Ben Coxworth 2024 Oct 05 – Foraging pangolins already dig in the dirt, so why not get them planting trees while they’re at it? Well, training them would be pretty hard, which is …
Scientists have finally discovered just how static electricity works – and cats are particularly good at creating it. Depositphotos – By Bronwyn Thompson 2024 Sep 26 – Incredibly, for the first time, scientists have unraveled the mechanisms at play when rubbing a surface creates …
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 …
