Why flying insects gather at artificial light(nature.com)

423 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 158 comments

Open-access Nature Communications research article (2024) investigating why flying insects gather around artificial light sources.

A 26-Gram Butterfly-Inspired Robot Achieving Autonomous Tailless Flight(arxiv.org)

54 points by Terretta 8 months ago | 15 comments

Supercentenarian records show patterns indicative of errors and pension fraud (2020)(biorxiv.org)

432 points by bookofjoe 3 years ago | 255 comments

bioRxiv preprint by Saul Justin Newman arguing that supercentenarian and extreme age records show patterns indicative of clerical errors and pension fraud.

High-res image reconstruction, latent diffusion models from human brain activity(biorxiv.org)

88 points by rntn 3 years ago | 17 comments

A cretaceous fly trap? Remarkable abdominal modification in a fossil wasp(bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com)

32 points by gnabgib 1 year ago | 4 comments

A 3D model of the human airways via a digital light processing bioprinter(analyticalsciencejournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com)

21 points by PaulHoule 1 year ago | 1 comments