Synchrotron could help save the Tassie devil
...e-up for time on a synchrotron at least nine hours flying time from Tasmania more likely further would make the whole thing very difficult, particularly in terms of biosecurity concerns because we would need to transport biological samples between different countries. Dr Church is one of hundreds of sci...Learning to evolve: With a little help from my ancestors
...y Dr Stone of Sheffield University, skills such as flying are easy to refine because the innate ability of today's birds depends indirectly on the learning that their ancestors did, which leaves a genetically specified latent memory for flying. The theory has been tested on simple models of brains called ...Bird sized airplane to fly like a swift
...oing so, the micro airplane can perform optimally, flying efficiently and highly maneuverable at very high and very low speeds, just like the swift.The students found out that using only four feathers, much less than the bird uses, already provides the wing with sufficient morphing capacity; this feature ma...Climate change reduces Queensland's bat numbers
...t a quarter of all mammal species and are the only flying mammals. Bats are declining worldwide and any information about their ecology is crucial to their future management Bats are often excluded from palaeoecological analyses due to their rarity in the fossil record and the difficulty in identifying them...Gannet population under threat from global warming
... of over 1000km, said Dr Hamer. They compensate by flying faster to make sure they dont leave their nests for too long, but our research shows theyve hit their limit. They just physically cant increase their speed any further. Until now, gannets have bucked the trend in the North Sea, their breeding succe...Fruit bats are not 'blind as a bat'
...ers, microbats (Microchiroptera) and fruit bats or flying foxes (Megachiroptera). In contrast to microbats, ...average of only five percent cones. "The retina of flying foxes is no 'evolutionary quirk', but conforms to the general mammalian blueprint that comprises rod...Massive herds of animals found to still exist in Southern Sudan
...wildlife like that, in such numbers, not even when flying over the mass migrations of the Serengeti, said Fa...f survey time, the team used a survey technique of flying systematically along transects making observations of all wildlife, livestock, human activities and ...Agonized death throes probable cause of open-mouthed, head-back pose of many dino fossils
... Dinosaurs and their relatives, ranging from the flying pterosaurs to Tyrannosaurus rex, as well as many early mammals, have been found exhibiting this posture. The explanation usually given by paleontologists is that the dinosaurs died in water and the currents drifted the bones into that position, or th...Bat flight generates complex aerodynamic tracks
...m because of their nocturnal habits. Most bats eat flying insects, consuming up to their body weight each night. Their agility and tremendous ability to maneuver in flight is accentuated by their ability to locate prey using an advanced echo-location system, which is basically a sonar operated by ultrasoun...Flies don't buzz about aimlessly!
...s. Andy Reynolds says, "Our results with freely flying Drosophila appear to be the first reported example of searching behaviour that is both scale-free and intermittent. This suggests that these behaviours are not part of two different searching strategies, but rather represent a single very effective a...Eavesdropping nuthatches distinguish danger threats in chickadee alarm calls
...larm calls to warn about predators. When they see flying raptors birds of prey such as hawks, owls and falcons they issue a soft, high-pitched "seet" call. However, when they see a stationary or perched predator, chickadees use a loud, wide-spectrum chick-a-dee-dee-dee alarm to recruit other birds to ha...CMU researcher publishes anole lizard findings
...tterns distinctive to each species sort of like a flying flag and evolutionary biologists study it closely because the anoles fully extend these dewlaps as signals when mating or establishing territory. Biologists have wondered whether anoles species that live in a very similar habitat, such as a tree t...New research finds people and pigeons see eye to eye
...cessing in honeybees has led to the development of flying robots and unmanned helicopters, the researchers say. So a software engineer who wants to design a program to help a robot recognize objects can get a leg up from evolution, which has been developing programs for object recognition in animals long ...Robotic cameras join search for 'Holy Grail of bird-watching'
...ons of the woodpecker were made while the bird was flying through dense forests, making it difficult to obta...nsors look for heat and are not triggered by birds flying overhead. So we're developing a robotic system that analyzes high resolution video in real time." ...Computer scientists join in search for ivory-billed woodpecker
...ameras, Arecont Vision's AV3100s. "It's a fast, flying object," Song said. "And also, the shape of the object the shape of the bird isn't regular. It's deformable, and from the lighting conditions, it's very difficult to capture." The robot stores images of the birds it has recorded in the hard disks...ALTRAN: Industry experts address technology challenges at Altran Innovation Conference
...ovation was Solar Impulse; an aeroplane capable of flying day and night on solar energy, charging lightweight lithium batteries during the day and flying off their energy at night. As well as these there was the Maxxun contribution of Luminescent Solar C...Googling brain proteins with 3-D goggles
...fying proteins and tallying them, has been akin to flying blind over a lake of proteins. The abundance and protein type could be discerned from a given sample, but knowing their location and how the abundances change in different cases is important for understanding what they do, PNNLs Smith said. He said...Is there a pilot in the insect?
...using experiments carried out on OCTAVE, a captive flying robot microhelicopter that can reproduce much of t...t is known that the sensory motor prowess of these flying miniatures depends on the nervous system, made up of between one hundred thousand and one million ne...Microsurgery and Super Glue show how antennae aid moth navigation
...is next round of experiments testing whether moths flying in bright light need less navigational help from their antennae. ...Bones in motion: Brown scientists to create new 3-D X-ray system
... the new system. "Imagine animated X-ray movies of flying bats or flexing knees. It's very cool technology t...on pilot projects to visualize pigs walking, birds flying and frogs jumping, using seed funds from Brown's Office of the Vice President for Research and the N...