News tagged with stripe patterns

Record number of jaguars uncovered in Bolivia

In a new camera trap survey in the world's most biologically diverse landscape, researchers for the Wildlife Conservation Society have identified more individual jaguars than ever before.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 19, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists crack code on tracking zebras

Field biologists following thousands of wild zebras in Africa used to joke about how nice it would be to have a bar code reader to help them identify and catalogue individual animals.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 25, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Tracking tigers in 3-D

New software developed with help from the Wildlife Conservation Society will allow tiger researchers to rapidly identify individual animals by creating a three-dimensional model using photos taken by remote ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Mar 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0




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Biobased approaches examined in fight against zebra chip

Thanks to investigations by scientists-turned-detectives with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and other agencies, potato growers in the western United States and abroad now know the identities of ...

Biology / Ecology

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How the zebra got its stripes

If there was a 'Just So' story for how the zebra got its stripes, I'm sure that Rudyard Kipling would have come up with an amusing and entertaining camouflage explanation. But would he have come up with the explanation that ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Researchers discover novel anti-viral immune pathway in the mosquito

(Medical Xpress) -- As mosquito-borne viral diseases like West Nile fever, dengue fever, and chikungunya fever spread rapidly around the globe, scientists at Virginia Tech are working to understand the mosquito's ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jan 10, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

What's that sparkle in Cassini's eye?

The moon Enceladus, one of the jewels of the Saturn system, sparkles peculiarly bright in new images obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The images of the moon, the first ever taken of Enceladus with Cassini's ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 02, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (10) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Adult stem cells use special pathways to repair damaged muscle (w/ Video)

When a muscle is damaged, dormant adult stem cells called satellite cells are signaled to "wake up" and contribute to repairing the muscle. University of Missouri researchers recently found how even distant satellite cells ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 01, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Predators drive the evolution of poison dart frogs' skin patterns

Natural selection has played a role in the development of the many skins patterns of the tiny Ranitomeya imitator poison dart frog, according to a study that will be published in an upcoming edition of Ame ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 21, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Simulating real-world surfaces

These days, cars are developed on computers, and to assist with this, designers want processes which generate realistic surfaces such as seat covers. Researchers have now developed high-resolution scanners ...

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 03, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Simple genetic circuit forms stripes: Synthetic biology helps scientists sort out pattern formation

Many living things have stripes, but the developmental processes that create these and other patterns are complex and difficult to untangle. Now a team of scientists has designed a simple genetic circuit that creates a striped ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Oct 13, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

96 percent of vertebrates -- including humans -- descended from ancestor with sixth sense

(PhysOrg.com) -- People experience the world through five senses but sharks, paddlefishes and certain other aquatic vertebrates have a sixth sense: They can detect weak electrical fields in the water and use ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 11, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (19) | comments 41 | with audio podcast

An electronic bucket brigade could boost solar cell voltages

If solar cells could generate higher voltages when sunlight falls on them, they'd produce more electrical power more efficiently. For over half a century scientists have known that ferroelectrics, materials ...

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 15, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 7 | with audio podcast


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