Ants Ahoy!
The latest on the bug beat: To survive floods, fire ants band together to form a raft. They can sail for weeks. But how does the raft stay afloat? Researchers report the answer in PNAS this week. Plus, engineers at Tufts are looking to the caterpillar for inspiration for soft-bodied robots. The problem is that squishy bodies make it difficult to move quickly--but some caterpillars have developed a workaround.
See NPR Science Friday for a video about Fire Ants creating an ant raft to save themselves from floods!
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I hope to present to you the gamut from the silly to the sublime, from the comic to the cosmic. So, hold on to your hats and away we go! Sio credesse che mia risposta fosse A persona che mai tornasse al mondo, Questa fiamma staria senza piu scosse. Ma perciocche giammai di questo fondo Non torno vivo alcun, s'i'odo il vero, Senza tema d'infamia ti rispondo From the epigram to "Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", orginally, Dante's "Inferno"
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