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Sean Nash

A new study reveals that marine cyanobacteria communicate - 0 views

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  • Sean Nash about 20 hours ago
     
    Adding this one less as feasible study inspiration, and more of... this is a huge finding about the most important organisms on the planet as a whole. The more we search, the more we find that organisms communicate. Cooperate even. Trees in a healthy forest communicate and cooperate. And now this. So cool...
Kylie John

Extreme solar storm generated aurorae-and 'surprise' | Science | AAAS - 0 views

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  • Although this weekend’s storm didn’t appear to take out any satellites, it may shorten some of their life spans.
    • Kylie John
      Kylie John on 26 May 24
       
      I just find it interesting that these solar storms effect satellites
Kylie John

Nature's 3D printer: Bristle worms form bristles piece by piece | ScienceDaily - 1 views

www.sciencedaily.com/...240513105156.htm

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  • Nature's 3D printer: Bristle worms form bristles piece by piece
  • The Raible group is currently working on improving the resolution of the observation in order to reveal even more details about bristle biogenesis.
Sean Nash

The Secret Language of Trees - YouTube - 0 views

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  • Sean Nash on 23 May 24
     
    The description of the experimental design toward the middle of this video... should be inspiring. Simple, yet complex. BOOM. So cool!
Sean Nash

Applied Sciences | Free Full-Text | Method for Prolonging the Shelf Life of Apples afte... - 1 views

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  • Sean Nash on 23 May 24
     
    (A pretty fancy piece of equipment is needed here, but I like the concept of this sort of project. Rigorous life science concepts, ability to generate a ton of data, super applicable to real life immediately, etc.)
emmarrogers

Acute fluoxetine exposure alters crab anxiety-like behaviour, but not aggressiveness | ... - 0 views

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  • fluoxetine
    • emmarrogers
      emmarrogers on 21 May 24
       
      This is an anxiety medicine in the Serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs)
emmarrogers

Anxiety medication: List, types, and side effects - 0 views

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  • chlordiazepoxide (Librium)
    • emmarrogers
      emmarrogers on 21 May 24
       
      This is the same medication used in a different study (https://www.aaas.org/news/science-crayfish-can-be-calmed-anti-anxiety-medication) Do only this group of Anti-anxiety medications work in crayfish?
Sean Nash

Hearing is be-leafing: Students invent quieter leaf blower | Hub - 1 views

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  • Sean Nash on 17 May 24
     
    OK- so THIS specific thing is done. I have not seen the data (decibels @ 50') but I do know this... there are many other challenges unsolved (and largely unaddressed) out there.
Sean Nash

Dynamic microvilli sculpt bristles at nanometric scale | Nature Communications - 0 views

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  • Scanning electron microscopy/SEM
    • Sean Nash
      Sean Nash on 16 May 24
       
      They had to use scanning electron microscopy to figure this out, yes. BUT... in scaling something like this up, we would not need such a thing!
  • The refractive index tomograms of isolated bristles were obtained by Nanolive 3D Cell Explorer, and raw data were deposited at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10207240.
    • Sean Nash
      Sean Nash on 16 May 24
       
      This might be the way to dial in the measurement ratios to mimick something like this on a larger scale for some purpose. How do the worms use them? If this doesn't get it, we can ALWAYS email the actual scientists to see if they can send us this data to do what we're trying to do. They are usually VERY helpful in such things for creative and hard-working students.
  • Sean Nash on 16 May 24
     
    I am often thinking about biomimicry. I wonder if something like this process could be 3D printed at a larger scale... for another valuable use of some sort. (?)
  • Sean Nash on 16 May 24
     
    This one is a LOT of chew through, but it is super interesting to figure out how living things bioengineer such structures over millions of years of evolution. Biomimicry is simply us studying (and then mimicking) the most interesting things in nature... to enhance something in the human world. This article is the original journal article linked to and highlighted by one of the ScienceDaily stories from today.
Sean Nash

Virtual reality warps your sense of time | ScienceDaily - 0 views

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  • Sean Nash on 15 May 24
     
    Interesting, perhaps. Well, we DO have a solid VR headset.
Kylie John

World's largest hummingbird is actually two species | ScienceDaily - 0 views

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  • "They are as different from each other as chimpanzees are from bonobos,"
    • Kylie John
      Kylie John on 26 May 24
       
      The article does not go into any more depth about the behavioural differences the two birds have. I wish it did.
katherine-medina

Romanian Journal of Plant Protection Vol. VI (2013) - 0 views

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  • katherine-medina on 28 May 24
     
    A paper on the application of a seaweeds macro-algae on a tomato plant that had been going through a drought.
nataliegomes

Crab's Brain Encodes Complex Memories | Scientific American - 1 views

www.scientificamerican.com/...clever-crustaceans

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  • Sean Nash on 04 Jun 24
     
    Two reasons to like this one... both invertebrates & learning/behavioral science tend to be feasible areas for research at our level. Keep reading... more deeply AND more broadly.
Sean Nash

Race car drivers tend to blink at the same places in each lap - 0 views

www.sciencenews.org/...ula-one-race-car-drivers-blink

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  • The world goes dark for about one-fifth of a second every time you blink, a fraction of an instant that’s hardly noticeable to most people. But for a Formula One race car driver traveling up to 354 kilometers per hour, that one-fifth means almost 20 meters of lost vision
  • People are often thought to blink at random intervals, but researchers found that wasn’t the case for three Formula drivers.
  • the drivers tended to blink at the same parts of the course during each lap, cognitive neuroscientist Ryota Nishizono and colleagues report in the May 19 iScience
    • Sean Nash
      Sean Nash on 06 Jun 24
       
      Interesting. So, do we do the same thing while driving around town? Could you design a method to record eye blinks as people drive known routes around town? We could simultaneously use the Arduino Science Journal app on the iPhone to also correlate physical data in a moving car like acceleration/deceleration, motion in X, Y, Z directions, etc. I wonder if we could find a correlation in everyday driving that could help from a safety perspective?
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  • He was surprised to find almost no literature on blinking behavior in active humans even though under extreme conditions like motor racing or cycling
    • Sean Nash
      Sean Nash on 06 Jun 24
       
      Ok.... this screams "potential research idea."
  • “We think of blinking as this nothing behavior,” he says, “but it’s not just wiping the eyes. Blinking is a part of our visual system.”
  • Where the drivers blinked was surprisingly predictable, the team found. The drivers had a shared pattern of blinking that had a strong connection with acceleration, such that drivers tended not to blink while changing speed or direction — like while on a curve in the track — but did blink while on relatively safer straightaways.
    • Sean Nash
      Sean Nash on 06 Jun 24
       
      What sort of implications does this have for driving in key, known, busy interchanges in KC? Could we potentially provide data to show certain stretches of highway need more signage, etc? That could have civil engineering implications.
  • Nishizono and colleagues mounted eye trackers on the helmets of three drivers and had them drive three Formula circuits
  • Nishizono next wants to explore what processes in the brain allow or inhibit blinking in a given moment, he says, and is also interested in how blinking behavior varies among the general population.
    • Sean Nash
      Sean Nash on 06 Jun 24
       
      While the "brain" part might move beyond our feasibility, the potential of finding real correlations to driving patterns or routes is a completely different spin-off and one that could have really practical suggestive applications for city planners, etc.
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