Soap Bubbles Pollinated a Pear Orchard Without Damaging Delicate Flowers
Soap bubbles accommodated a secure method of artificial pollination of apear orchard by transferring pollen grains to designated flowers. Thisillustrated that such an unusual approach could efficaciously pollinatetargeted flowers to bear fruits. This research, conducted at the JapanAdvanced Institute of Science and Technology in Nomi, Japan, issued on17 June on journal iScience, suggested that soap …
Spectacular Bird’s-Eye View? Hummingbirds See Diverse Colors Humans Can Only Imagine
The team trains wild hummingbirds to discriminate UV color combinations. Finding food, dazzling mates, escaping predators, and navigating diverseterrain, birds rely on their excellent colour vision. Mary Caswell Stoddard, an assistant professor at Princeton University, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, deduced that humans are color blind in comparison with birds and several other animals. …
How Playing the Drums Changes the Brain
Many years of playing the instrument has positive effects on the brain. The cerebral functioning and brain structure of people who often play drums vary from those who do not play musical instruments. A research conducted by esteemed analysts from Bochum reviewed the components of the brain and deduced that they had few sturdy filaments …
Why do Bees Love Hexagons?
Coincidence or pure science? What information can Product Teams gain from it, and how it may help them? An in-depth dive into a bee’s mind and the fascinating laws of nature. Bees are one of the most intelligent creations of Mother Nature. Over the centuries, honeybees have strived to answer one, simple question:What shape should …
Bedbugs Walked the Earth 100 Million Years Ago
Bed bugs are as ancient as dinosaurs. They have been walking the earth for over 100 million years. A global team of scientists compared the DNA of different species of bed bugs to understand their relationship with human beings and the evolutionary relationship within the group. The study suggests that bats were not the first …