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Kylie John

Dice snakes fake their own death, smearing themselves with blood and poop to make the p... - 1 views

  • Only one juvenile snake bled from the mouth
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      How do they do that??
Kylie John

The Impossible Goal of a Disease-Free World - 1 views

  • The environmental impacts of such actions were potentially devastating in retrospect. And ultimately, they had little influence on the long-term prevalence of plague.
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    "The environmental impacts of such actions were potentially devastating in retrospect. And ultimately, they had little influence on the long-term prevalence of plague. "
Kylie John

Traces of bird flu are showing up in cow milk. Here's what to know - 0 views

  • “The challenge that I see right now on U.S. farms is a virus getting into hogs,” Osterholm says. Pigs carry receptors similar to the ones found in both humans and birds, making swine a hog-heaven for bird flus that have potential to become a pandemic.
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      How come pigs have similar receptors as us
  • “The challenge that I see right now on U.S. farms is a virus getting into hogs,” Osterholm says. Pigs carry receptors similar to the ones found in both humans and birds, making swine a hog-heaven for bird flus that have potential to become a pandemic.
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    Be sure you are tagging articles when you bookmark them. I don't see any tags on this one, and I only see one on the other, "ice." Also... this is a SUPER interesting topic. However, we'd have way more than an uphill climb working with any sort of known pathogens (even potential pathogens) if we could even get our hands on them.
Caleb Jasper

Your car may be giving you cancer, warns study - 0 views

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    Thought this was interesting.
Caleb Jasper

A Surprise find: Soybean waste can be fish feed - 0 views

  • fish feed. The wastewater from soybean
  • processing can be converted into a nourishing, protein-rich food for farmed Asian sea bass, a team of scientists has discovered.
  • They worked with a local food processing company to rescue hundreds of liters of soybean wastewater, which they discovered was rich in two types of protein-accumulating microbes in particular, known as Acidipropionibacterium and Propioniciclava.
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  • The sea bass that were fed the alternative microbe protein diet did have significantly lower weight to begin with, but that evened out as they grew. And, notably, the group that received the traditional feed diet had greater variability in their weight gain as they grew—whereas those fed the alternative microbe protein diet showed a more even accumulation of weight over the experiment’s course.
  • Meanwhile, the wastewater from other soybean uses goes unused—but according to the recent results, could feasibly tackle both of these sustainability challenges at once. Furthermore it’s not just soybean waste water, the researchers say: several agricultural processes create wastewater side streams that are rich in the combination of carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus that’s needed to sustain a growing population of hungry, protein-accumulating bacteria.
  • Microbial community‐based protein from soybean‐processing wastewater as a sustainable alternative fish feed ingredient.
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    Possible more efficient fish feed to reduce waste and benefit the environment as well as the economy.
ethanlawr

A teeny device can measure subtle shifts in Earth's gravitational field - 0 views

  • Called gravimeters, such devices can detect tectonic plates shifting, sense the movement of underground water, reveal hidden oil and gas reserves, and track magma within volcanoes to provide data for predicting eruptions, along with many other applications.
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      How is a Gravimeter able to detect the movement of tectonic plates shifting, does it detect sound waves or vibrations?
Sean Nash

Model Organisms - HSR 2025 - Google Docs - 3 views

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    This is a crowd-sourced document I created for a session with high school research teachers in Washington D.C. in 2022. SAVE this document and use it to explore some of the more commonly-used model organisms for all sorts of biological research. There is a TON to explore here!
Sean Nash

Model Organisms for Research - HSRTC - 2022 - Google Slides - 4 views

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    This is a slide deck I used for a presentation to research teachers in Washington D.C. last year. I will also save a link to the crowd-sourced document we created in this session where teachers too our suggested model organisms, and then added in their suggestions as well.
nataliegomes

Do Invertebrates Have Emotions? | The Scientist Magazine® - 1 views

  • He adds that he doubts that the findings are applicable to other insect species, which still might act purely on instinct.
  • Invertebrate nervous systems, physiology, and sensory experiences are dissimilar to ours, and designing experiments to measure their emotions has been challenging. 
  • If the responses weren’t purely reflexive, it would open up the possibility that the animals could feel pain. 
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  • After placing acetic acid—a mild irritant—on the crabs’ antennae, they found that the crabs rubbed their antennae against the glass of their aquarium, seemingly in an attempt to take the acid off.
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      The use of an invisible irritant rather than a notable injury shows that they can feel the pain, instead of just noticing an injury to their body.
Kylie John

Stony coral tissue loss disease indirectly alters reef communities | Science Advances - 2 views

  • Butterflyfishes, which are facultative corallivores in this region, have even been found to prefer SCTLD-infected coral
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      Some species like the infected coral Maybe it has different properties or something
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    You know, there are repositories of publicly available image/video data from coral reef surveys.... somewhere online. They make them available for people to devise creative ways of pulling data out of such raw material. Might be something to look into.
nataliegomes

Control of behavioral decisions is similar in insects and mammals | ScienceDaily - 2 views

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    I wonder what sort of electronics were needed to accomplish this. I also wonder how difficult it would be to attach those to a living insect without sacrificing it.
emmarrogers

Bumblebees use Lego blocks to build science and recognise the value of teamwork | Unive... - 1 views

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    Interesting. The video clips are especially valuable for understanding their methods. So, these tests have been done... but what other sorts of learning tests might be possible? Are there any that might even show value in this species beyond just "what is possible for the bee nervous system to accomplish?"
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