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Octopus arm flexibility facilitates complex behaviors in diverse natural environments

Octopus arm flexibility facilitates complex behaviors in diverse natural environments

Arm actions Twelve arm actions were identified from 15 behaviors with a total of 3,907 actions recorded from 25 wild octopuses (total 25 min, 1-min per octopus) across 6 field sites with varying ecohabitats. The majority of these actions were observed across multiple behaviors. Many actions were observed during the behaviors of crawl (11/12 actions), crawl speculative bottom searching (10/12 actions), …

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A diverse and distinct microbiome inside living trees

A diverse and distinct microbiome inside living trees

Thompson, L. R. et al. A communal catalogue reveals Earth’s multiscale microbial diversity. Nature 551, 457–463 (2017). ADS  Google Scholar  Bar-On, Y. M., Phillips, R. & Milo, R. The biomass distribution on Earth. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 115, 6506–6511 (2018). ADS  Google Scholar  Vandenkoornhuyse, P., Quaiser, A., Duhamel, M., Le Van, A. & Dufresne, A. The importance of the …

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A diverse cast of rocky worlds around a small star revealed by Montreal astronomers

A diverse cast of rocky worlds around a small star revealed by Montreal astronomers

A team led by the Trottier Institute for Research on Exoplanets (IREx) at the Université de Montréal has achieved the most precise study to date of the L 98-59 planetary system, and confirmed the existence of a fifth planet in the star’s habitable zone, where conditions could allow liquid water to exist. Volcanic planets, a sub-Earth, and a water world Charles …

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