Fish Recognize Faces - Spherical Explosions - Self-Screwing Seed | Reading Nature
In episode 155 of "Reading Nature," I talk about:
1) 00:49 an interesting engineering project: a tiny seed carrier that screws 1 cm into the soil without any power;
2) 09:19 kilonovae - what are they and why we were intrigued by their highly symmetrical nature;
3) 14:01 research on cleaner wrasses shown a mirror.
Sources:
1) Luo, D., Maheshwari, A., Danielescu, A., Li, J., Yang, Y., Tao, Y., ... & Yao, L. (2023). Autonomous self-burying seed carriers for aerial seeding. Nature, 614(7948), 463-470. https://www.nature.com/articles/s4158...
2) Sneppen, A., Watson, D., Bauswein, A., Just, O., Kotak, R., Nakar, E., ... & Sim, S. (2023). Spherical symmetry in the kilonova AT2017gfo/GW170817. Nature, 614(7948), 436-439. https://www.nature.com/articles/s4158...
3) Kohda, M., Bshary, R., Kubo, N., Awata, S., Sowersby, W., Kawasaka, K., ... & Sogawa, S. (2023). Cleaner fish recognize self in a mirror via self-face recognition like humans. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(7), e2208420120. https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas...
This material was created with funding from the Excellence Initiative Strategic Program at the Jagiellonian University.