MichelledeVilliersflipped into Art and ScienceFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoGenes Giant lungfish genome elucidates the conquest of land by vertebrates nature.com - Axel Meyer, Siegfried Schloissnig, Paolo Franchini, Kang Du, Joost Woltering, Iker Irisarri, Wai Yee Wong, Sergej Nowoshilow, Susanne Kneitz, Akane Kawaguchi, Andrej Fabrizius, Peiwen Xiong, Corentin Dechaud, Herman Spaink, Jean-Nicolas Volff, Oleg Simakov, Thorsten Burmester, Elly M. Tanaka, Manfred Schartl Lungfishes belong to lobe-fined fish (Sarcopterygii) that in the Devonian ‘conquered’ land and gave rise to all land vertebrates, including …
MichelledeVilliersflipped into Art and SciencePigs Oldest cave art found in Sulawesi sciencemag.org Indonesia harbors some of the oldest known surviving cave art. Previously, the earliest dated rock art from this region was a figurative painting of …
MichelledeVilliersflipped into Art and ScienceNeon Behold The Neon Glow Of The Fluorescent Web-Footed Gecko iflscience.com - Rachael Funnell An exciting discovery was made by researchers who turned an ultraviolet (UV) torch to the web-footed gecko, Pachydactylus rangei. A paper published in …
MichelledeVilliersflipped into Art and ScienceHarvard The Curious Strength of a Sea Sponge’s Glass Skeleton Quanta Magazine - Elena Renken A glass sponge found deep in the Pacific shows a remarkable ability to withstand compression and bending, on top of the sponge’s other unusual …
MichelledeVilliersflipped into Art and ScienceNature Photography Ice Flowers Frost Flowers - Ice Segregation in plant stems ilstu.edu In a process called Ice Segregation cold water moves through a medium toward the presence of ice, freezes at the interface and adds to the ice. Ice …
MichelledeVilliersflipped into Art and ScienceGenetics The Mutated Virus Is a Ticking Time Bomb verified_publisherThe Atlantic - Zeynep TufekciA new variant of the coronavirus is spreading across the globe. It was first identified in the United Kingdom, where it is rapidly spreading, and has been found in multiple countries. Viruses mutate all...
