dryriver shares a report from the BBC: Babies in the womb have extra lizard-like muscles in their hands that most will lose before they are born, medical scans reveal. They are probably one of the oldest, albeit fleeting, remnants of evolution seen in humans yet, biologists say, in the journal Development. They date them as 250 million years old — a…
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Tiny ‘Lizard-Like’ Muscles Found in Developing Embryos Vanish Before Birth
Detailed 3D images of embryos reveal that some muscles form and then vanish during early human development. Source: https://www.livescience.com/disappearing-muscles-human-embryo.html
T. rex had an air conditioner in its head
How did the huge dinosaurs stay cool? According to a new study, they did it much as today’s alligators do, with a built-in ‘air conditioner’ on the top of their skulls. Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/t-rex-stay-cool-air-conditioner-head-video…
A Wearable Robotic Tail Could Improve Your Balance
Long-time Slashdot reader Ken McE shared a video of a new working prototype for a wearable tail. Engadget reports: There are lots of companies who make wearable tails for humans, but they’re usually for cosplay or other entertainment pursuits. Researchers at Keio University in Japan have created a wearable animated tail that promises to genuinely augment the wearer’s capabilities — not…
2 Teens Hospitalized with Kidney Damage After Doing 1,000 Squats Apiece
When is exercise a bad thing? When you do so many squats your muscles break apart and poison you. Source: https://www.livescience.com/66054-teen-girls-rhabdomyolysis-squats.html
Zombie Ants Are Controlled by a ‘Master Puppeteer’ Parasite, But We Still Don’t Know How
The parasite forces the ants to climb to the tops of shrubs, bite down and die. Source: https://www.livescience.com/66001-fungus-invades-muscles-zombie-ants.html
A deadly fungus gives ‘zombie’ ants a case of lockjaw
Clues left on infected ant jaws may reveal how the ‘zombie-ant-fungus’ contracts ant muscles to make their death grip. Source: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/deadly-fungus-gives-zombie-ants-lockjaw4…
Superstrong artificial muscle can lift 1000 times its own weight
Extremely strong artificial muscles that can lift 1000 times their own weight could be used for prosthetic limbs, exoskeletons and robots Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2209494-superstrong-artificial-muscle-can-lift-1000-times-its-own-weight/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
6 amazing facts about ants
It’s summer here in the Northern Hemisphere. And summertime is ant time. Here are 6 things about ants you might not know. Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/amazing-facts-ants…
How This Gut Bacteria May Give Elite Athletes an Edge
Elite athletes not only have stronger hearts and fitter muscles than the average Joe, but they also sport special gut bacteria that may actually boost their performance. Source: https://www.livescience.com/65780-athletes-gut-bacteria-boost-performance.html