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Cuttlefish skin that reacts to light may hold key to making better camouflage
Washington :: DC :: USA | 4 months ago
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Unlike any other animals, cuttlefish and squid use light to blend into or stand out from their surroundings. Marine scientists believe they do this using tiny sensors all over their skin that help them change color without sending messages to the
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Screen Talk: Ty Burrell lands a Muppet role
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 5 months ago
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Ty Burrell, from TV show Modern Family, is set to join the cast of Disney's sequel to The Muppets as a human cast member. James Bobin, who directed the 2011 Muppets film, returns to direct and co-wrote the screenplay with Nicholas Stoller. The
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Watch this incredible slow-motion video of an octopus lighting up its skin [Video]
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 7 months ago
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One bite from its beak could kill a human, and most sea creatures wouldn't fare much better. But the blue-ringed octopus shares a trait with poisonous butterflies. It has coloration that warns predators not to eat its deadly flesh. In the case of the
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Squid Fin is First Biological Music Display
New York City :: NY :: USA | 9 months ago
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Chromatophores on a living Squid fin jamming along with Cypress Hill?...We tested our cockroach leg stimulus protocol on the squid's chromatophores...The video is a view through an 8x microscope zoomed in on the dorsal side of the caudal fin of the
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Watch what happens when you play Cypress Hill through a squid's fin [Video]
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 9 months ago
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Cephalopods like squid and octopuses change their appearance with color-changing cells called chromatophores. Chromatophores can be stimulated via electrical signals like the ones coming out of the headphone jack of an iPhone playing Cypress Hill's "
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Telomeres and telomerase: the keys to immortality?
ATLANTA - One night, perhaps a week ago now, I was at the computer working on another article and half listening to the television, my normal weeknight routine. Usually I have the idiot box tuned to something I can at least half-heartedly
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Study finds new weapon in the fight against diabetes
Denver :: CO :: USA | 10 months ago
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Researchers from the Missouri University of Science and Technology say that they may have found a way to re-sensitize cells to the effects of insulin. Sterculic oil, found in a wild species of almond called Sterculia foetida, may help people in whom
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Dreaming of a Cure for Diabetes
Cleveland :: OH :: USA | 10 months ago
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I dream of the day I turn on the morning news and see They did it!...I will run to my car, drive to the diabetes center in my town, and wait in line with everyone also who is beyond overjoyed that their bodies will finally begin to do what they were
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Volunteers find rare blue-colored frog in Downers Grove preserve
Downers Grove :: IL :: USA | 10 months ago
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Theyve spied rare bird and dragonfly species in detailing animal behavior patterns and populations. Theyve also observed some frog species experience double mating seasons this year due to our early spring. But this week, while out with his wife,
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New Microscope Enables Needle Free Blood Testing
El Granada :: CA :: USA | 12 months ago
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However, researchers from the biomedical engineering department at the Israel Institute of Technology (Technion) may have found a way to take the pain out of some of our blood tests in the future. The researchers have developed a new microscope that
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