In episode 153 of "Reading Nature," I talk about:
1) 01:04 the many ways a drying bud wrinkles;
2) 09:59 the deep structure of Hawaiian volcanoes, inferred from micro-earthquakes;
3) 21:33 the artificial duck digestive system and what comes out of it.
Sources:
1) Wang, T., Dai, Z., Potier-Ferry, M., & Xu, F. (2023). Curvature-Regulated Multiphase Patterns in Tori. Physical Review Letters, 130(4), 048201. https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...
2) Wilding, J. D., Zhu, W., Ross, Z. E., & Jackson, J. M. (2022). The magmatic web beneath Hawai'i. Science, eade5755. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/s...
3) van Leeuwen, C. H., Soons, M. B., Vandionant, L. G., Green, A. J., & Bakker, E. S. (2023). Seed dispersal by waterbirds: a mechanistic understanding by simulating avian digestion. Ecography, 2023(1), e06470. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/f...
This material was created with funding from the Excellence Initiative Strategic Program at Jagiellonian University.