Sonoluminescence
How does the Mantis shrimp perform sonoluminescence, an awesome exercise that results in transforming sound into light. MinutePhysics explains.
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Call Me Stormy
Finding righteous currents in turbulent times
Archive for the tag “biology”
New Body Part Found
Medical researchers in Great Britain have discovered a new body part — a previously unknown layer of the human cornea. Alex Dainis reports on the finding in a landmark edition of Bite Sci-zed, the 50th installment of her popular YouTube science series.
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Your Internal Clock
Circadian Rhythms– It’s a fancy name for our body’s internal clock. And like it not, they dictate so much of what we do and how we feel. D News looks at why we have them and how they work.
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Strength and Muscle Growth
What if I told you that superhuman strength may be possible in the near future? H/T AsapSCIENCE
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Top 10 New Species
Scientists around the world discover about 18,000 new species every year. Each new organism has not only to be found, but also studied, compared, identified and organized — that’s taxonomy, the science of classifying living things and exploring the evolutionary relationships between them. Hank Green from the SciShow reports.
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Why Roosters Aren’t Endowed
A new study from the University of Florida in Gainesville has discovered why male chickens and other birds do not have a penis. Around 97 percent of bird species have little or no phallus, even though they reproduce through internal fertilization.
Although chickens have a penis in the embryonic stages of development, it regresses over the course of maturation because of a genetic program that causes cell death at the tip of the growing penis.
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Primates Originate in China?
The long-held belief that primates began their evolution in Africa has been called into question following the discovery in China, of the oldest known primate fossil. Writing in this month’s Nature journal, an international team of researchers announced the discovery of Archicebus achilles, a primate that lived more than 55 million years ago. Rob Muir reports for Reuters.
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The Science of Cats
Why do cats always seem to land on their feet? Is catnip an aphrodisiac for them? AsapSCIENCE offers the straight, scientific scoop on cats in this episode.
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Count the Chromosomes
Chromosomes are fascinating little things, and today, Hank Green explains why more of them doesn’t mean more complex, and why different organisms have different numbers of chromosomes. The short answer: mistakes happen.
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