Natural Shelters on Leaves House Plant Bodyguards
... do just that in the form of tiny pockets and hair tufts on the undersidesof leaves, offering the shelter necessary to house a population of plant-protectingbugs, report researchers at the University of California, Davis. By simulating these naturally occurring shelters, known as "leafdomatia," on cotton ...First dinosaur found with its body covering intact; displays primitive feathers from head to toe
...ith downy fibers. Other parts of its body sprout tufts or sprays of filaments resembling primitive feathers, and the backs of its arms are adorned with branched structures like the barbs of a modern bird feather. The spectacular fossil is on loan from the National Geological Museum of China to the Ame...Fresh evidence points to marine bacteria as a source of anti-cancer drug
...ula neritina, a brown bryozoan animal with stringy tufts that look like algae, appears unremarkable and similar to a variety of moss-like sea creatures. In fact, bryozoans are widely known by boat operators, who consider them ordinary fouling organisms and often scrape them off their vessels hulls. But t...Unique social system found in famous Tsavo lions
...ut that the regions tangled thorn bushes tear away tufts of hair as the lions hunt and chase their prey. This theory was dispelled by observations of maneless male lions in arid grasslands lacking thorn bush. Some have even suggested that the Tsavo lions are a distinct species, but this possibility is unsu...Researchers aim to control treatment-resistant head lice
... hair tufts," Clark said. "We just cut little hair tufts and make teepees out of them and the head lice kind of sit on this membrane and they think they're on a scalp and they wander down and take a blood meal and then go back up." The controlled environment allows the scientists to examine the biochemical...Chicken embryo research tunes into inner ear
...ious respect - both types grow in tufts, but those tufts used for balance also have single, long cilia that stretch out from among the hairs. After we turned the Wnt genes on, we saw these cilia growing in places usually reserved for the non-ciliated auditory hairs." Many researchers overseas are trying to...Familiarity decides if wolf spider loves 'em or eats 'em
...t looks, or phenotypes. They might have ornamental tufts of hair on their forelegs, or their exoskeletons might be of different colors. "Males of most other spider species look alike. I studied this species because there is variability among the males," says Hebets. Previously, researchers had explored sp...Genuine stem cells found in skin might treat hair loss, wounds
...ess mice, the cells also formed stretches of skin, tufts of hair, and sebaceous glands, which secrete an oily substance known as sebum that lubricates skin and hair. "We've identified cells within skin that bear all the characteristics of true stem cells--the ability for self renewal and the multipotency ...