The human body is a veritable cellular highway with up to 37 trillion cells traveling about and carrying out all essential ...

Because humans don’t feel Earth’s electric field, its role in biology is often overlooked ... But most of these “ballooning” events take place on quieter days and can’t explain the ...

Electricity can help keep biological tissues functioning while ... But the molecular pumps are sensitive to electrical fields, and Liu’s group has found that putting electrodes on the surface ...

Electric fields at strengths found in nature can also ... according to a newly published report in the journal Current Biology. Ballooning spiders have long fascinated scientists because they ...

When comparing thunderstorms and other weather events with the the bees ... “We only recently discovered that biology and static electric fields are intimately linked and that there are ...

They have shown that bees and spiders use electric fields surrounding flowers for foraging and migration. “We essentially always looked at how physics influenced biology, but at some point, we ...

This non-uniform electric field wreaks havoc on dividing cells. The electric field tears apart important biological molecules, such as DNA and the structural proteins that pull the chromosomes ...

A team of researchers claims to have shown that a high-voltage electric field generated using wind ... means the researchers have limited biological data on the plants. “It cannot lead them ...

The researchers found that, rather than crawling up the walls of the dish, the worms were leaping from the bottom of the plate to the lid—and they were using electric fields to do so.

Now, a new study out of the University of Rostock (UR) in Germany adds another impressive skill to the dolphin's roster of powers: the ability to sense weak electric fields. Two UR researchers ...

Scientists found that dolphins have an ability to sense electric fields, which may help them ... Thursday in The Journal of Experimental Biology. Dr. Dehnhardt first studied the whisker pits ...