Get Started for FREE
Sign up with Facebook Sign up with X
I don't have a Facebook or a X account
 Your new post is loading...
Your new post is loading...
Scoop.it!
NASA has its sights on launching rockets into space with lasers. "What if..." they're wondering, "shuttles could be sent up using laser beams to heat their fuel from the ground?" Biophysicists in Japan have had a similar idea. They've successfully used lasers to launch genes inside living creatures, with a little help from nanotechnology. If this works in humans, future battles with cancer may be fought by remote control 
No comment yet.
Sign up to comment
Scoop.it!
Researchers may have solved a piece of the puzzle surrounding how fish “smell” harm.
When one fish is injured, others nearby may dart, freeze, huddle, swim to the bottom or leap from the water. The other fish know that their school mate has been harmed. But how?
Scoop.it!
Have you ever felt like you're really a fish? That you love the water, you want to swim forever, that you should don an artificial tail and eat kelp for the rest of your life? Then congratulations, you're crazy.
Scoop.it!
When one fish gets injured, the rest of the school takes off in fear, tipped off by a mysterious substance known as "Schreckstoff" (meaning "scary stuff" in German). Now, researchers have figured out what that scary stuff is really made of.
Scoop.it!
The blind Mexican cavefish (Astyanax mexicanus) have not only lost their sight but have adapted to perpetual darkness by also losing their pigment (albinism) and having altered sleep patterns.
Scoop.it!
A new film captures a circular game of copycat: a fish that mimics an octopus that mimics fish.
Scoop.it!
(PhysOrg.com) -- Three Simon Fraser University biologists and an International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) scientist say it’s no longer fiction but fact. No one will be able to find Nemo if conservation action isn’t taken soon.
Scoop.it!
The traditional belief that fish have short memory spans may not be as true as we thought. Gates scholar Alex Vail is carrying out research that reveals how fish remember other sea creatures and even people.
Scoop.it!
From
io9
When animals practice monogamy, we can generally tell right away. After all, couples like to hang out together, whether they're humans or squirrels or hawks.
|
Scoop.it!
Researchers hoping to better understand fish distributions by recording the sounds they make have picked up something unusual: barely-audible, cricket-like noises they think could be nighttime fish farts. Articles about robotics: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=robotics
Scoop.it!
Mothers who eat fish while pregnant produce offspring with better cognitive development.
Scoop.it!
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers studying schooling in fish have discovered that a real fish will follow a robot fish if it will help them use less energy swimming.
Scoop.it!
Can pregnant women help boost their children's brainpower by eating fish?
Scoop.it!
A species of air-breathing fish can walk underwater in the same way land animals do, suggesting walking evolved in the water...
Scoop.it!
The world's oldest fish hook has been unearthed at a site in East Timor, alongside evidence that modern humans were catching fish from the open ocean as far back as 42,000 years ago.
Scoop.it!
Scientists have found how fish which travel in shoals sync their movements and avoid bumping into one another.
|
