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The tadpoles that don't care about their siblings
4+ hour, 31+ min ago (264+ words) Kyoto, Japan -- Amphibian larvae -- often known as tadpoles -- exhibit a behavior known as social aggregation, where they gather together as a way to avoid predators. These interactions are evidence of their association preferences, or their tendency to recognize members of…...
Dead or alive, plankton support marine ecosystems
1+ day, 15+ min ago (185+ words) Activity Database on Education and Research However, assessing the death of a particular plankton population out of a community consisting of hundreds of coexisting species poses a complex challenge. A team of researchers at Kyoto University addressed this by focusing…...
The first short-tailed Tsushima leopard cat
4+ day, 2+ hour ago (164+ words) Activity Database on Education and Research Kyoto, Japan -- The Japanese island of Tsushima is home to the Tsushima leopard cat, a critically endangered species that can only be found on this isolated island. The most recent government survey estimated the…...
Looking into the eyes of gibbons
2+ week, 2+ day ago (235+ words) Activity Database on Education and Research Kyoto, Japan -- When you look at someone, you usually look at their face. It serves as one of the most important sources of social information in primates, so the evolution of face perception has…...
A transistor that operates at 600°C
2+ week, 4+ day ago (190+ words) Activity Database on Education and Research Kyoto, Japan -- For more than two decades, silicon carbide -- SiC -- has been promoted as the key to developing extreme-environment electronics. Yet despite its promise, the field has remained stuck at the stage of basic…...
Kyoto's gardens provide habitats for local amphibians
3+ week, 1+ day ago (159+ words) Activity Database on Education and Research Kyoto, Japan -- Where they could once hop and amble freely, urbanization is diminishing the habitats of amphibians. Yet, small-scale water bodies managed by people -- such as those found in the gardens of Japan's temples,…...
Assessing hurricane wind damage from above
3+ week, 2+ day ago (221+ words) Activity Database on Education and Research Kyoto, Japan -- Massive storms like the 2005 Hurricane Katrina, that cause over $100 billion in damage, were once considered once-in-a-lifetime events. Increasingly, however, they are becoming the norm: a direct result of climate change, which has…...
The gene mutations behind serious bone marrow conditions
1+ mon, 4+ day ago (285+ words) Activity Database on Education and Research When young patients are diagnosed with either condition, an underlying germline genetic abnormality can generally be suspected as the cause. The genetic basis and mechanisms of these diseases remain unknown in many patients, but…...
Mapping the upper atmosphere
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (246+ words) Activity Database on Education and Research Nonetheless, developing observation methods for thermospheric density is essential both to further advancing the science of the upper atmosphere and for applications in space engineering. These needs inspired a team of researchers at Kyoto…...
Organized when awake, chaotic when not
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (131+ words) Activity Database on Education and Research "This unexpected finding suggests that while the anesthetized brain is flooded with random, noisy information, the awake brain selectively regulates information in specific directions," says corresponding author Yutaka Komura. "In other words, the awake…...