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- Phase of the moon affects amount of rainfall
- Scientists map mouth microbes
- 'Architect' aquatic insects build perfect shelters out of tiny stones and they balance their two halves as a survival strategy
| Phase of the moon affects amount of rainfall Posted: 30 Jan 2016 03:21 PM PST Satellite data shows that the moon's gravity puts a slight damper on rainfall on Earth. |
| Posted: 28 Jan 2016 10:32 AM PST A new study provides a detailed look at how the microbes in the mouth coexist. |
| Posted: 28 Jan 2016 05:14 AM PST Larvae of caddisfly, aquatic insects of the order Trichoptera, using substrate particles, build tiny tubes where they protect their fragile bodies and carry out the metamorphosis which will transform them in adults. Researchers unveil a curious secret of Nature, unknown until now. When the time for pupation comes, larvae modify the architecture of their shelters, balancing their two halves by means of adding weight to both ends. The goal is that the tubes in which they stay captive until pupation can rest horizontally on the shallow banks of the streams, given that, in case of staying in vertical position, the probability of being exposed to the air would be too high and they could die. |
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