#naturescience — Public Fediverse posts
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The Psychedelic Toad of the Sonoran Desert
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bufo_Alvarius:_the_Psychedelic_Toad_of_the_Sonoran_Desert
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49172319
#HackerNews #PsychedelicToad #SonoranDesert #BufoAlvarius #NatureScience #Toads
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Is Life Just Different?
Eduardo Ramón for Quanta Magazine In 1993, a team led by the planetary scientist Carl Sagan tentatively concluded that there is life on Earth. Not much of a deduction, you might think except that the researchers confined their evidence to observations made by the Galileo spacecraft(opens a new tab), which had flown past our planet three years earlier on a looping journey to Jupiter. So great is the transformative power of life that its presence can be detected just from the light and radio […]https://onlinemarketingscoops.com/2026/07/08/is-life-just-different/
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Mycorrhizal Fungi, Nature's Key to Plant Survival and Success
#HackerNews #MycorrhizalFungi #PlantSurvival #NatureScience #Ecology #Fungi
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Oh, look! 🦜 Birds have eyes! And guess what? They've evolved! 🤯 Who would've thought?! Quanta Magazine tackles the groundbreaking revelation that evolution happens, one bird eye at a time. 🦉🎉 Next up: water is wet. 💧🚀
https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-the-bird-eye-was-pushed-to-an-evolutionary-extreme-20260513/ #BirdsEvolution #QuantaMagazine #NatureScience #EyeOpening #Discoveries #HackerNews #ngated -
Costasiella kuroshimae – Solar Powered animals, that do indirect photosynthesis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costasiella_kuroshimae
#HackerNews #CostasiellaKuroshimae #SolarPoweredAnimals #IndirectPhotosynthesis #NatureScience #MarineBiology
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🦫🌈 Platypus fur just got even more fascinating!
Scientists discovered unusual pigment structures in platypus fur that help the animal stay camouflaged and possibly even regulate temperature in cold water. These unique nanostructures give the iconic Australian monotreme its distinctive brownish hue while offering surprising evolutionary advantages.
Read more: https://thedebrief.org/scientists-discover-unusual-pigment-structures-in-platypus-fur/
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The pond frog shows remarkable resilience as a predator of venomous hornet workers 🐸⚔️. Its high tolerance to stings enables it to consume these painful prey safely. Dive into this fascinating predator-prey evolution! 🐝🔬 #NatureScience #Predation #VenomResistance https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ecs2.70457
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Plants are amazing! "Plants may lack our facial features, but the fact that they don’t have eyes, ears, or noses has not stopped them from developing ways to see, hear, and smell potential threats around them. While plants’ sensory processes are complex and mysterious, a new study mapping out protein interactions has given researchers new insights."
https://futurism.com/plant-sense-mapping/
#Plants #NatureScience #BioIntelligence #Sustainability #EcoAwareness #ScientificDiscovery #LifeSciences
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A 4k-year-old spatial pattern of termite mounds
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(18)31287-9
#HackerNews #4kYearOldPattern #TermiteMounds #SpatialEcology #CurrentBiology #NatureScience
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Diese Woche fand die bereits 9. Ausgabe des Sommertechnikums #MINT statt - und das DiSC war wieder dabei! Alexander Kupfer hat den 21 motivierten Schülerinnen aus Österreich, Deutschland und Südtirol unsere interdisziplinären Forschungsagenden und ihren realweltlichen Bezug näher gebracht und unser Wahlpaket #DigitalScience vorgestellt. 🔬 🚀
Wir freuen uns schon auf die Fortsetzung im September! 👋🏻🙋♀️
#uniinnsbruck #womenintech #naturescience #innsbruck #interdisziplinär
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Killer whales groom each other–with pieces of kelp
https://www.science.org/content/article/killer-whales-groom-each-other-pieces-kelp
#HackerNews #KillerWhales #Grooming #Kelp #MarineLife #AnimalBehavior #OceanConservation #NatureScience
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Could trees know when the summer solstice is?
#Environment #Plants #SummerSolstice #Trees #NatureScience #PlantBiology #ClimateAndPlants #Masting #ForestEcology #TreeReproduction #Photosynthesis #Phenology #BeechTrees #PlantIntelligence #EcologyFacts
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Turritopsis dohrnii: Immortal jellyfish
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/immortal-jellyfish-secret-to-cheating-death.html
#HackerNews #TurritopsisDohrnii #ImmortalJellyfish #NatureScience #MarineBiology #CheatingDeath
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What a Crab Sees Before It Gets Eaten by a Cuttlefish — https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/03/science/cuttlefish-camouflage-huting-crabs.html
#HackerNews #CrabVision #CuttlefishCamouflage #MarineLife #NatureScience #PredatorPrey -
Lavender Magic: The Science & Benefits of Aromatherapy
#Aromatherapy #LavenderLove #WellnessJourney #NaturalHealing #EssentialOils #MoodBooster #Relaxation #HealthBenefits #NatureScience #HolisticHealth #AnxietyRelief #FragrantFriend #SelfCare #Mindfulness #PlantPower
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Researchers have found that trees across vast distances sync their fruiting cycles to the sun's rhythms, known as masting. This coordination, influenced by sunlight and climate, maximizes reproductive success while baffling predators. Understanding this could reveal how ecosystems adapt to environmental changes on a continental scale. #Ecology #Trees #NatureScience
https://www.quantamagazine.org/across-a-continent-trees-sync-their-fruiting-to-the-sun-20240618/ -
So... #botany peeps? #communication nerds? #Bee beloveds?
I heard a thing - on a YT video re: attempts to understand non-human communication..... about how certain plants, in laboratory settings, created sweeter nectar upon being exposed to the sound of an approaching bee. which of course encourages the bee to other flowers of that type.
This might be the coolest #natureScience fact i've run across in a good while!!!! I'll follow up with the scientist name when I get a moment.