Tag: frogs
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Nation & World
Who will fight for the frogs?
Indian herpetologists bring their life’s work to Harvard just as study shows a world hostile to the fate of amphibians.
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Nation & World
Physics, real and fictional
A Harvard study is exploring the way humans’ sense of “intuitive physics” of the real world leaves fingerprints on the fictional universes we create.
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Nation & World
Brains or skin?
A protein that is necessary for the formation of the vertebrate brain has been identified by researchers at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) and Boston Children’s Hospital, in collaboration with scientists from Oxford and Rio de Janeiro.
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Nation & World
The divergent skull
New work by Harvard scientists challenges long-standing ideas on skull development in vertebrates.
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Nation & World
All goes swimmingly
Using simple hydrodynamics, a team of Harvard researchers was able to show that a handful of principles govern how virtually every animal — from the tiniest fish to birds to the largest whales — propel themselves through the water.