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Representative venom delivery systems in plants, including (A) co-habiting ants that numerous ant-plants provide a home and food for; (B) haustria of parasitic plants that attack other plants; (C) stinging trichomes of stinging plants; and (D) raphides that penetrate the oral membranes of animals that browse on plants. Artwork by Loma Linda University student M. Benjamin Streit.

Study Reveals Venom Delivery Systems Hiding in Plants, Fungi, and Even Viruses

Categories Life & Non-humans

The team's modeling approach is significant to advancement in robotics, dynamics and control systems.

Scientists Map Complex Control System Behind Octopus Arm Movement

Categories Life & Non-humans, Physics & Mathematics

Dorsal and ventral comparison of adult male Limnonectes cassiopeia (top) and adult male L. macrocephalus, species similar enough to confuse scientists.

New Fanged Frog Species Discovered in the Philippines, Hidden in Plain Sight

Categories Life & Non-humans

Composite image of a globular springtail jumping. Credit Adrian Smith

Tiny Backyard Bug Performs World’s Fastest Backflips

Categories Life & Non-humans, Physics & Mathematics

blind cave fish

Blind cavefish have extraordinary taste buds

Categories Brain & Behavior, Life & Non-humans

Lake Erie walleye growth is driven by parents’ size, experience

Categories Technology

mudskipper

To walk, you just need fins and a sense of adventure

Categories Life & Non-humans

This image shows a hibernating little brown bat infected with white-nose syndrome.

A stealth fungus has decimated North American bats but scientists may be a step closer to treating white-nose syndrome

Categories Life & Non-humans

Using a microscopy image and graphic rendering, the artists illustrate a minimal synthetic cell that can sense a directional chemical cue and self-organize in response.

‘Synthetic’ cell shown to follow chemical directions and change shape, a vital biological function

Categories Health, Life & Non-humans, Technology

Thismia malayana live specimen.

Remarkable new plant species steals nutrients from underground fungi

Categories Life & Non-humans

$NOMIS-ISTA Fellow David Brückner at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA)$

The Self-Assembling Embryo: How Cells Talk to Build a Body, Explained Mathematically

Categories Health

Panamanian golden frog is nearing extinction.

Discovery could end global amphibian pandemic

Categories Life & Non-humans

The updated bird family tree, published in Nature, delineating 93 million years of evolutionary relationships between 363 bird species.

Computational tools fuel reconstruction of new and improved bird family tree

Categories Life & Non-humans

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