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Kylie John

Ignoring Noise Pollution Harms Public Health - 1 views

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    I think this shows tons of promise for feasibility- especially since we have an international airport nearby, and measuring sound is straightforward. Acquiring the data acquisition probes to do this is certainly feasible. A lot of room for creativity here. If this is interesting, also dig into ARC-GIS as a tool to geographically map out the sound data generated.
Kylie John

The Unexpected Villain in Plant-Based Diets - 3 views

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    Love this topic... but it would be a tough one. Look up "ISEF rules - vertebrate animals" to get an idea of how hard it is to get an vertebrate animal study approved where you are altering a diet in a way that includes feeding something suspected of having issues to animals. It isn't impossible, but it is very difficult. Often, we just shift down to an invertebrate animal. However, in this case, I don't think the variable of processed plant dietary items would transfer as well to non-vertebrate animals. And yet, I could be convinced otherwise if you can show me some other work done that says we might be able to gain worthwhile information from a study like that.
Sean Nash

Wild plants and crops don't make great neighbors | UCR News | UC Riverside - 0 views

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    There are plenty of things about this study that are not so feasible for us at the moment, but... this general area: plant pathology, interactions between native and non-native plants & crops... is a very cool area to explore that would present some feasibility for us.
Kylie John

What causes you to get a 'stitch in your side'? | Live Science - 0 views

  • This theory is supported by the fact that side stitches become more likely if you eat or drink right before exercise.
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      Does this mean that if I don't eat before I run I won't get a side stitch because I would appreciate that
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    Yeah. I was always prone to this. It made CC even more excruciating!
Kylie John

Ants perform life saving operations - the only animal other than humans known to do so ... - 0 views

  • In experiments, they observed that the ants treated their nest members' femur injuries by cleaning the wound with their mouths before amputating the leg by repeatedly biting it, while the tibia wounds were treated with just cleaning.
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      I wonder how the ant functions after this. It mentions that later the survival rate goes up but is the ant still able to do everything it used to? Like how ants can carry a lot more than their body weight, does that change for the ant after it got amputated?
  • The scientists are now extending their research to other ant species that don't possess special antimicrobial glands to see if other ants have the ability to perform surgeries. 
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      Research oppurtunity?
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    This one has promise........
Kylie John

Artificial light is a deadly siren song for y | EurekAlert! - 0 views

  • News Release 3-Jul-2024 Artificial light is a deadly siren song for young fish Reports and Proceedings Society for Experimental Biology image: Light pollution at night over aquatic habitats in French Polynesia. view more  Credit: Jules Schligler New research finds that artificial light at night (ALAN) attracts larval fish away from naturally lit habitats, while dramatically lowering their chances of survival in an “ecological trap”, with serious consequences for fish conservation and fishing stock management.
Kylie John

Wear it, then recycle: Designers make dissolvable textiles from gelatin | ScienceDaily - 0 views

  • A T-shirt that you can wear a few times, then, when you get bored with it, dissolve and recycle to make a new shirt.
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      What happens when it rains
Kylie John

Does this wolf want to play-or attack? Take a close look at its face | Science | AAAS - 0 views

  • Many contemporary studies have used methods designed to study dogs—a poor proxy, as our furry friends have fewer facial expressions than their ancestors.
  • (These techniques have previously been used to study facial expressions in cats.)
  • These expressions were common to all of the gray, arctic, and Canadian wolf packs the researchers observed.
Kylie John

Odors are encoded in rings in the brain of migratory locusts | ScienceDaily - 0 views

  • However, this coding mechanism is not necessarily transferable to other locust species.
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      Why is it only a thing for migratory locaust?
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