Tag: cilia
Care for Appetizers? Electric Proteins, Spidey Sense, and More
Welcome to the second day of the New Year! Like tasty sliders, these short news stories should get the juices flowing for big developments in 2020.
Design in the First Animals
Scientists debate whether ctenophores are the earliest animals to appear in the Cambrian explosion. If so, they arrived with multiple tissues, a nervous system, and a digestive system.
Sense of Smell Requires Optimized, Scalable Network Circuitry
The ability to smell is one of the most complex of our senses. It requires sorting, analyzing, and sifting a torrent of input data quickly.
Read Carefully, Nature News Conspires to Refute Darwinism
The kingfisher bird has to dive after fish rapidly without busting its beak. Japanese scientists looked into the physics of this, and redesigned the noses of their bullet trains.
Appreciate Your (Un-Evolved) Body
Things you probably didn’t even know about should arouse awe as we go about our tasks each day, and sleep each night.