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BiologyApril 3, 2017

Double Vortices Give Mosquitoes a Boost

Our understanding of how insects fly didn’t explain how mosquitoes managed to stay on the wing. It took eight slow-motion cameras to help researchers reveal how mosquito wing beats shape the air to give the insect extra lift.

This video was reproduced with permission and was first published on March 29, 2017. It is a Nature Video production.

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Mind & BrainJuly 17, 2014

Nevada Celebrates Pollinator Week

The title of this article probably is an overstatement. Perhaps instead it should have been ‘a small subset of people in Reno, and possibly in Vegas (because everything you can think of exists there) celebrated pollinators for a week.

Felicity Muth

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Mind & BrainJuly 15, 2014

Psychic Animals and Football-Playing Bees

Working in the field of animal behaviour means that around World Cup season it’s hard to avoid being sent links to so-called ‘psychic’ animals that predict the outcome of matches, such as Paul the octopus, Leon the porcupine and Anton the tamarin.

Felicity Muth