Very few scientific studies have formally investigated the angles to which ballet dancers lift their legs. But in 2009, a team from : the Dipartimento di Neuroscienze and Centro di Biomedicina Spaziale, Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata, Roma, Italy, the Dipartimento di Fisiologia Neuromotoria, IRCCS Fondazione Santa Lucia, Roma, Italy, the Dipartimento di […]
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Ants with stilts: An experiment
Alex Bellos writes: In the first chapter of my book I mention experiments at the University of Ulm that discovered that Saharan desert ants have a sense of number. Researchers first sent ants down a tunnel for food. Once the ants reached the food some of the ants had pig bristles attached to their legs, […]
Attractiveness of Leg Length (updated)
Researchers : Piotr Sorokowski (University of Wroclaw, Institute of Psychology), Andrzej Szmajke (University of Wroclaw, Institute of Psychology), Agnieszka Sorokowska (University of Wroclaw, Institute of Psychology), Maryann Borg Cunen (University of Malta), Marharyta Fabrykant (Belarusian State University), Kiumars Zarafshani (Razi University), Manochehr Amiri (Razi University), Saeideh Bazzazian (Islamic Azad University), Biljana Blazevska-Stoilkovska (University “Sts. Cyril […]
Bacteria can walk — and often do
A stand-up-and-take-notice report last month in the journal Science explains that some kinds of bacteria can walk, and that those bacteria often do. The study, done by researchers from UCLA, The University of Illinois, and Notre Dame University, is: “Bacteria Use Type IV Pili to Walk Upright and Detach from Surfaces“, Maxsim L. Gibiansky, Jacinta […]