Study reveals why eyes in some paintings seem to follow viewers
...ure of a medical mannequin human torso in a richly sculpted gilded frame, which appeared to be hanging on a brick wall. The wall and frame were shown in color, the torso in neutral gray. In order to answer their questions, the researchers needed to determine how the apparent 3D structure of the object depicte...Scripps scientists look deep inside sharks and their high-performance swimming system
...e the physical demands of the external environment sculpted the body shapes of these species, but also the internal physiology and "morphology," or form and structure, of their complex locomotor systems have been fine-tuned over the course of their evolution. "Sharks and bony fishes have been separated for ov...Pioneering study compares 13 vertebrate genomes
...contributions of the various changes have uniquely sculpted each species' genome. These findings point to the complex ways that evolution has used millions of years of alterations to render each species' genome into its modern-day form. Researchers emphasized that because their findings pertain to just a sing...USC scientists uncover secrets of feather formation
...rather than a rachis forming first, and then being sculpted into barbs and barbules. This interaction between evolutionary biology and developmental biology (dubbed Evo-Devo) is a relatively new marriage of two previously disparate fields. To come to their conclusions, Mingke Yu, the postdoctoral fellow and f...November GEOLOGY and GSA TODAY media highlights
... that caused the surface uplift from which erosion sculpted the mountains. Microdiamonds in a negacrystic garnet websterite pod from Bardane on the island Fjortoft, western Norway: Evidence for diamond formation in mantle rocks during deep continental subduction. Herman L. M. van Roermund, Faculty of Earth ...In harshest environments, some proteins protected by 'alternate' folding mode
...ion. The UCSF researchers found that the structure sculpted by the pro-region is remarkably resistant to unfolding. Whereas normal proteins transiently unfold in minutes to days, alpha-lytic protease can take a year or more to unfold, making it extraordinarily resistant to proteolysis, or breakdown by other p......the system. "River networks in the drainage basin sculpted by erosionand networks in plants and animals all obey this scaling law. Allometricscaling is built into efficient transportation networks and the pervasiveubiquity of such scaling shows the remarkable extent to which nature has beenable to accommoda...