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These Bugs Have the Right Stride

August 9, 2008

If there were an Olympic event for walking on water, the water strider would lead the pack. Science Daily reported on work by European biologists that show the water bug has perfectly proportioned legs for being able to balance on the surface tension of water: “Long enough to provide maximum weight support but not long […]

Darwin and Evolution

Evolution Takes Credit

August 24, 2007

It may be more blessed to give than to receive, but evolution often just takes.

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Honeybees Fly with Mental Maps

February 15, 2005

You can tell a honeybee to get lost, but it can’t. You can even take it off its flight path, but it will find its way back. Scientists writing in PNAS1 this week described experiments by a European team that wanted to test their navigating abilities. They marked bees at feeding stations, then took them […]

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Gecko Has Self-Cleaning Feet

January 4, 2005

Imagine self-cleaning, reusable tape. No matter where you stick it, you can remove it and stick it on another surface, no matter how dirty, and it always acts like new. The tokay gecko has achieved such a feat on its feet, according to a physicist and a biologist from Lewis and Clark College, Oregon, publishing […]

Genetics

Genes Are Not Telling the Whole Story

October 20, 2002

A growing realization is dawning on geneticists: there is more going on in DNA than previously imagined. Now that whole genomes are becoming available, scientists are eagerly trying to understand how the genetic code (genotype) produces a full-grown organism (phenotype), like a fruit fly or human. The interesting stuff in DNA used to be the […]

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