Found in the Cave of Skulls, this small textile fragment is believed to have been coloured using dye from oak scale insects, a substance thought to be the “scarlet worm” referenced in the Bible.
With fabrics and masses of loose fibre, migration takes place in much the same way as a worm crawls 1, and is due primarily to the surface scale structure of the fibres. This peculiarity is turned ...
Caenorhabditis elegans, one millimeter long, has just 959 cells. The worm’s simplicity has made it a mainstay of scientific research.Credit... Supported by By Teddy Rosenbluth When scientists ...
Learn about our editorial policies In economics, the term diseconomies of scale describes the phenomenon that occurs when a firm experiences increasing marginal costs per additional unit of output.
Finally, the theoretical analysis and derivations are validated by simulation and physical prototype building, which lay the foundations for the design and manufacture of small-scale soft crawling ...
Like other farmers who have experienced similar Damascene moments, O’Farrell’s response to a field of dead worms was to pay ... Nature isn’t about small-scale farmers disaffected by ...
48 x 71 in. (121.9 x 180.3 cm.) Papunya Tula Artists Pty. Ltd., Alice Springs, The Holmes Court Collection, Perth Austral Gallery, Saint Louis, MO; acquired in 1996 ...