Showing posts with label Insects. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Insects. Show all posts
Thursday, April 23, 2015
Sunday, September 15, 2013
Nature: Insect leg cogs a first in animal kingdom
Toothed gears enable young plant hoppers to synchronize limbs for jumping.
If you are a young plant hopper, leaping one metre in a single bound, you need to push off with both hind legs in perfect unison or you might end up in a spin. Researchers have discovered that this synchrony is made possible by toothed gears that connect the two legs when the insects jump.
Zoologists Malcolm Burrows and Gregory Sutton at the University of Cambridge, UK, say that this seems to be the first example in nature of rotary motion with toothed gears. They describe their findings today in Science1.
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Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Damien Hirst
Damien Hirst is a famous artist. His most recent showing at Tate Modern in London England displayed art such as cows cut in half, and a shark in a tank of formaldehyde. One of the pieces used butterflies. Over 9,000 butterflies died in the exhibit.
Do you think that's ok for Damien Hirst to use the butterflies in his art if they might die?
Answer in your blogs.
Here is the story by Claudine Zap.
Do you think that's ok for Damien Hirst to use the butterflies in his art if they might die?
Answer in your blogs.
Here is the story by Claudine Zap.
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