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A bird attacking a butterfly will often find its beak snapping at thin air. According to new research, that split-second miss isn't just bad luck. It's caused by a visual illusion from the butterfly's wings.
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Asgard archaea, our closest known microbial relatives, play a key role in current models of the origin of more complex organisms, known as eukaryotes (all animals, plants, protists and fungi).
The brightness of their colours and patterns creates optical illusions that confuse their potential predators and that is why they hardly have any in comparison with moths.
Over a century ago, Australian geologist Sir Douglas Mawson led a sledding expedition over hundreds of kilometers of ice into a remote part of East Antarctica.
Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute, King's College London and Complutense University of Madrid have shown that γδ T cells use adaptive immune receptors to drive rapid, innate-like responses to…
Their whirring wings and bright patterns help keep them safe from birds, British study finds Naturalists have long wondered how brightly coloured butterflies manage to evade the attention of birds…
Engineers have developed a new approach for turning ordinary water into a weapon against antibiotic-resistant bacteria, according to a study published in the journal Chem Catalysis.
