Vishay Singh

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A Panther drone en route during a delivery trial run. Credit: Advanced Tactics Inc. A four-wheeled drone’s first aerial package delivery test showed off a special touch by also driving up to the doorstep of its pretend customer. That capability to deliver by both air and land makes the Panther drone an unusual competitor in the crowded drone delivery space. But the drone’s limited delivery range may pose a challenge in competing against the delivery drones of Go ...read more

Author Vishay Singh

A tadpole with its eye transplanted to the tail. (Credit: Blackiston et. al) A migraine drug has given tadpoles the ability to see out of eyes in their tails. Researchers at Tuft’s University transplanted the eyes of young African clawed frog tadpoles from their heads to their tails in an effort to study how their nervous system would adapt. They gave some of them the drug zolmitriptan, commonly used to treat migraines, and left others alone. Although nerves are often hesitant to gr ...read more

Author Vishay Singh

Meiacanthus atrodorsalis—a pretty little fish with a venomous bite. Photo by Klaus Stiefel via Flickr “Did you tell her the one about George Losey and the blenny?” Rich Pyle asked with a knowing smirk. Pyle and I were sitting in the living room of legendary ichthyologist Jack Randall for a piece I was writing about him for Hakai Magazine. “It’s a good venom story,” Pyle continued, grinning. Randall’s eyes lit up with mischievious joy ...read more

Author Vishay Singh

Individual microbes of the same species often have a lot of different genes. But why? (Image: NIAID) Prochlorococcus marinus are diminutive organisms. At less than a micrometer across, these photosynthesizing microbes may be small, but they’re plentiful – by many accounts one of the most abundant species on the planet. But that’s not quite the full story: like any other member of the same species, no two P. marinus individuals are genetically identical. What’s remarkabl ...read more