biophysics

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• Illuminating ocean processes through dye and lasers

  
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  NPR : John Dabiri , bioengineer at Caltech, has developed new techniques for studying the motion of aquatic animals. In a recent study in the journal Nature , Dabiri and Kakani Katija explain how swimming animals contribute to ocean mixing—the process that distributes heat, nutrients and gasses throughout the ...
  4 days ago

• Were dinosaurs warm-blooded and nimble?

  
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  guardian.co.uk : Tyrannosaurus rex was an athletic, warm-blooded animal that jogged rather than lumbered around its territory, according to a new study. Researchers led by Herman Pontzer at Washington University in St Louis examined the anatomical details of 14 dinosaurs of different sizes to work out how much ...
  2 weeks ago

• batteries not included

  
  Cocktail Party Physics — Authority: 524
  I love my three-year-old MacBook Pro, but it does run through the batteries, no matter how regularly I calibrate the darn things. Im on the third replacement battery, and its barely holding a charge anymore, lasting for, oh, 30 minutes at most. I expect it will give up the ghost any day now. The question now ...
  2 weeks ago

• Proof that Capsaicin Stops Heart Attacks

  
  Zeitgeist — Authority: 130
  Capsaicin stops heart attacks. According to researchers at the University of Cincinnati, the primary ingredient of cayenne, capsaicin, can even stop a heart attack as it is happening. The scientists discovered that a simple pain ointment that contains capsaicin can act as a cardiac protectant when rubbed onto the skin ...
  3 weeks ago

• Biophysical Bone Behavior: Principles and Applications by Jitendra Behari

  
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  Biophysical Bone Behaviour: Principles and Applications | Jitendra Behari | Publisher: Wiley 2009-08-24 | 416 Pages | ISBN: 047082400X | PDF | Biophysical Bone Behavior: Principles and Applications is the culmination of efforts to relate the biophysical phenomena in bone to bone growth and electrical behavior. ...
  3 weeks ago

• Long Toes & Short Ankles Help Sprinters Accelerate Faster

  
  Anthropology.net — Authority: 538
  The Journal of Experimental Biology has published an interesting paper about some unique features in sprinters: longer toes and shorter ankle joints. The only one flaw is that their sample size is limited, they only compared 12 collegiate sprinters with 12 non-athletes of the same height. Regardless, from a ...
  3 weeks ago

• Birds who use light, not magnetic fields, to migrate

  
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  | Wired.com : A cell in the eye may be worth two in the beak, at least when it comes to a migratory birds magnetic compass. In European robins (right image), a visual center in the brain and light-sensing cells in the eye—not magnetic sensing cells in the beak—allow the songbirds to sense which direction is ...
  4 weeks ago

• The eyes of the mantis shrimp

  
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  The Daily Telegraph : The mantis shrimps , found on the Great Barrier Reef in Australia , have the most complex vision systems known to science, researchers at Bristol University have found. The shrimps can see in 12 colours—humans see in only three—and can distinguish between different forms of light to ...
  4 weeks ago

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