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- Could ‘The Day After Tomorrow’ happen?
- How the stick insect sticks (and unsticks) itself
- Edible love gifts may influence female behavior, suggests cricket study
| Could ‘The Day After Tomorrow’ happen? Posted: 09 Oct 2015 05:32 AM PDT A researcher has produced a scientific study of the climate scenario featured in the disaster movie 'The Day After Tomorrow'. In the 2004 film, climate warming caused an abrupt collapse of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC), leading to catastrophic events such as tornadoes destroying Los Angeles, New York being flooded and the northern hemisphere freezing. Although the scientific credibility of the film drew criticism from climate scientists, the scenario of an abrupt collapse of the AMOC, as a consequence of anthropogenic greenhouse warming, was never assessed with a state-of-the-art climate model.Now scientists have found that, for a period of 20 years, the earth will cool instead of warm if global warming and a collapse of the AMOC occur simultaneously. |
| How the stick insect sticks (and unsticks) itself Posted: 07 Oct 2015 05:43 AM PDT New research shows the fluid found on insects' feet does not help them adhere to vertical and inverted surfaces, as previously thought, but may in fact help them to unstick their feet more easily to allow greater control over their sticking power. |
| Edible love gifts may influence female behavior, suggests cricket study Posted: 06 Oct 2015 11:45 AM PDT Edible gifts given by male crickets to their female partners during mating contain unique proteins which could affect the females' behavior according to research. The scientists believe that some of the proteins contained in the nuptial gift prevent digestive enzymes in the female's gut from breaking down other active proteins in the gift. These protected proteins may then alter her reproductive physiology and make her less likely to mate with further males. |
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