Why do dyeing poison frogs tap dance?
The toe tapping behavior of various amphibians has long attracted attention from researchers and pet owners. Despite being widely documented, the underlying functional role is poorly understood. In a new paper, researchers demonstrate that dyeing poi.....»»
Ant invasion: How pets become pests
When I was a teenager, I volunteered in the rainforest exhibit at an aquarium. A few times a week, we'd get a phone call from someone looking to donate a pet that they could no longer care for. Mostly turtles and frogs. The occasional parrot. Once, a.....»»
Boston Dynamics’ Newest Robot Doesn’t Dance—It Works
Called Stretch, the machine may look wildly different than its famous cousins Spot and Atlas, but it shares a ton of their DNA......»»
The Physics of That Spinning Hug in Dua Lipa’s Music Video
The dance move seems to defy gravity—but it actually involves Newton’s second law, equilibrium, and a fake force......»»
God of War: Niflheim and Ivaldi’s Workshop guide
Ivaldi's Workshop in Niflheim is one of the toughest challenges in God of War. Here are a few tips and tricks on how to navigate the poison, maze, and traps......»»
Researchers design a new highly-selective tool to study "undruggable" proteins through the sugars they depend on
Sugar has been called "evil," "toxic," and "poison." But the body needs sugars, too. Sugar molecules help cells recognize and fight viruses and bacteria, shuttle proteins from cell to cell, and make sure those proteins function. Too much or too littl.....»»
Proteins choreograph the infinitesimal dance of living cells and functional biomaterials
An interdisciplinary research team at Lehigh University has unraveled how functional biomaterials rely upon an interfacial protein layer to transmit signals to living cells concerning their adhesion, proliferation and overall development......»»
Can Users Poison the Data Big Tech Uses to Surveil Them?
"Algorithms are meaningless without good data. The public can exploit that to demand change," argues a new article in MIT's Technology Review (shared by long-time Slashdot reader mspohr): Data is fed into machine-learning algorithms to target you wi.....»»
How to successfully dance the creator-brand tango
Without the understanding of engagement metrics, brands often end up partnering with creators at a life stage that could be incompatible with their goals. Ashwin Ramasamy Contributor Share on Twitter.....»»
This frog has lungs that act like noise-canceling headphones, study shows
To succeed in mating, many male frogs sit in one place and call to their potential mates. But this raises an important question familiar to anyone trying to listen to someone talking at a busy cocktail party: how does a female hear and then find a ch.....»»
Meet this year’s winners of the Dance Your PhD contest
This year's contest also featured a special award for best COVID-19-related dance. Finnish researcher Jakub Kubecka won this year's Dance Your PhD contest with a rap-based dance inspired by his work on the physics of atmospheric molecular.....»»
"Miracle poison" for novel therapeutics
Researchers demonstrate they can engineer botulinum toxin proteins (called proteases) to find new targets with high selectivity, a critical advance toward potential new treatments for everything from neuroregeneration to cytokine storm......»»
How we turned a golf course into a haven for rare newts, frogs and toads
Around two in five amphibian species are threatened with extinction around the world. In Britain, all of our native frog, toad and newt species have declined since 1945, with one species – the pool frog – dying out in the 1990s. Climate change, d.....»»
Time-lapse reveals the hidden dance of roots
Duke researchers have been studying something that happens too slowly for our eyes to see. A team in biologist Philip Benfey's lab wanted to see how plant roots burrow into the soil. So they set up a camera on rice seeds sprouting in clear gel, takin.....»»
Unique feeding behavior of Asian kukri snakes gutting frogs and toads
After describing a unique behavior in the Small-banded Kukri Snake (Oligodon fasciolatus) last September, two new studies, also led by Henrik Bringsøe, are now reporting the same gruesome feeding strategy in another two species: the Taiwanese Kukri.....»»
Mars Relay Network connects Earth to NASA"s robotic explorers
A tightly choreographed dance between NASA's Deep Space Network and Mars orbiters will keep the agency's Perseverance in touch with Earth during landing and beyond......»»
Study finds birdsong remains the same in forests after 1080 poison drops
Claims that forests "fall silent" because birds are killed in such large numbers during 1080 poison drops are unsupported by newly released research by Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington scientists......»»
Decrypted: A hacker attempted to poison Florida town’s water supply
Oldsmar is a small town in Florida that became the center of the cyber world this week when a hacker broke into its drinking water supply and tried to poison it. It’s the nightmare scenario that the security community has warned for years, one.....»»
A hacker tried to poison a Florida city"s water supply
According to Reuters, someone gained remote access to TeamViewer on an employee’s computer at the facility in Oldsmar, Florida, located about 25 minutes north of Tampa, on Friday. The worker saw a popup window informing them of the intrusion before.....»»
Hackers try to poison Florida town by changing chemical levels at water treatment plant
A water treatment plant in Florida was targeted by hackers who tried to poison a town's water supply, according to the local sheriff......»»
Computer intruder tried to poison Florida city’s drinking water with lye
Change boosting sodium hydroxide level was reversed before anyone got hurt. Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Someone broke into the computer system of a water treatment plant in Florida and tried to poison drinking water for a Florida municipali.....»»