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Seeing Heat: The Sensory Systems Of Boas, Pythons And Pit Vipers
The goal of this research is to determine the mechanisms underlying predatory and defensive behavior guided by an extraordinarily novel sensor in snakes. Pit vipers, pythons and boas possess special organs that form images in the brain...
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Seeing Heat The Sensory Systems Of Boas, Pythons And Pit Vipers
The goal of this research is to determine the mechanisms underlying predatory and defensive behavior guided by an extraordinarily novel sensor in snakes. Pit vipers, pythons and boas possess special organs that form images in the brain...
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Even healthy corals have viruses
Corals are important ecosystem engineers, providing habitat and nutrient recycling to tropical reefs. However, coral species' richness and abundance are in decline worldwide, due in large part to the impacts from global industrialization...
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Waterfall-climbing fish performs evolutionary feat
The species of Goby fish, Sicyopterus stimpsoni, also known as the ""Inching climber,"" thrives in the waters off Hawaii, and the amazing physical feat it must perform to survive is no fish tale! To reach the safe haven of its freshwater...
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CLARITY opens window to brain circuitry, new era for neuroscience
The connections between neurons in the brain are involved in everything we do, and no one's pattern is the same. Imagine the medical breakthroughs if we understood more about the brain's circuitry, but a milky opaque tissue that coats...
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Disappearing Frogs
Disease, pollution, and loss of habitat are killing off hundreds of species of amphibians. One of the biggest threats right now is an aquatic fungus called chytrid that infects the skin of these historically tough, resilient creatures....
Catalyst University
The Nuclear Pore Complex: Nuclear Import, Export, & RAN
In this video, we discuss the mechanisms by which proteins are targeted to the nucleus (import) and moved from the nucleus to the cytoplasm (export). Collectively, nucleocytoplasmic transport is regulated by the nuclear pore complex and...
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Birds, Climate Change, and Citizen Science
With help from the National Science Foundation, Cornell University's Ornithology Lab is tracking bird breeding biology and the impact of climate change on bird populations. Some of the best information they are getting is from dedicated...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Mariana Mazzucato: Government Risk and Private Sector Reward
Is there a role for the state in fostering innovation? The usual caricature of government involvement in business, which has become especially prominent in the last 40 years, can be seen in the classic American aphorism: “The government...
Catalyst University
Using UNIPROT & GenBank to Locate Gene Sequences [Given a Known Protein]
In this video, I show you: 1) How to search UniProt for a protein of interest given its name or code. AND 2) How to access its XM number and gene sequence from UniProt.
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No leader? Now what?
When we refer to someone as the ""queen bee,"" it suggests she might be in charge of the situation. But, in fact, actual queen bees are not in charge of anything. Their job is to lay eggs, not to rule the hive. With support from the...
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Mind Mappers: Mapping The Brain To Understand The Mind
Neuroanatomist Jacopo Annese is looking for 1,000 brains. The Director of the Brain Observatory at the University of California, San Diego is on a quest to collect, dissect, and digitize images of the human brain for the Digital Brain...
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Mind Mappers Mapping The Brain To Understand The Mind
Neuroanatomist Jacopo Annese is looking for 1,000 brains. The Director of the Brain Observatory at the University of California, San Diego is on a quest to collect, dissect, and digitize images of the human brain for the Digital Brain...
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New Mosquito Repellant Could Be Frightening... For The Mosquitoes!
Vanderbilt University researchers say they're working to unleash an insect repellent on mosquitoes that's more powerful than DEET. The discovery could one day be effective in reducing the spread of mosquito-borne diseases, such as...
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Body Rhythms And Breast Cancer
Virginia Tech Biologist Carla Finkielstein is using funding from the National Science Foundation to investigate a possible connection between body rhythms and breast cancer. Her lab is full of frogs because she uses their eggs to study...
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Alaska mountain glaciers retreating due to climate change
Tighten your seat belt! This runway is made of ice. Welcome to Ruth Glacier, deep inside Alaska's Denali National Park and Preserve. Some of the visitors are here for recreational activities, such as backcountry skiing, but this is no...
NASA
Houston We Have a Podcast: European Science on Station
Angelique Van Ombergen details the unique experiments from the European Space Agency on the International Space Station. HWHAP Episode 217.
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Pacific Dead Zones
Ocean ""dead zones"" along the Washington and Oregon coasts are threatening critical U.S. fishing areas. These oxygen-depleted regions, that loose virtually all of their marine life in the summer, are expanding, and new ones are...
The Wall Street Journal
Britain's New Place in the World
Can the UK seize opportunities from the technological revolution and a new partnership with Europe?
NASA
NASA in Silicon Valley: Stevan Spremo Talks About Boxing Up Bacteria for Space Travel
A conversation with Stevan Spremo, Space Flight Project Manager at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley.
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NSF Science Now: Episode 42
In this week's episode we explore origami-inspired devices, examine family technology rules and, finally, we examine how changing ocean chemistry may threaten the Antarctic food chain.
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Ecologists test stability of Maine ecosystem over 2 decades
Working on a lobster boat in Swan's Island, Maine, typically means an early wake-up call. The boats head out around 5:30 in the morning. For University of Pennsylvania ecologist Peter Petraitis, California State Northridge biologist...
The Wall Street Journal
Waiting for Godot
The Affordable Care Act is dying a death by a thousand cuts. Will Congress find an alternative?
The Wall Street Journal
Investing in China's Biotech: Opportunities and Risks
China has poured billions of dollars into cultivating a homegrown biotechnology industry, but how soon can it challenge U.S. rivals? Lilly Asia Ventures' Judith Li and Qiming Venture Partners' Nisa Leung discuss with WSJ Health and...