Short Takes.[] MUSSEL mussel, edible freshwater or marine bivalve mollusk. Mussels are able to move slowly by means of the muscular foot. They feed and breathe by filtering water through extensible tubes called siphons; a large mussel filters 10 gal (38 liters) of water per day. GLUE Searching for a source of strong waterproof glue, Department of Energy scientists have synthesized syn·the·sized adj. 1. Relating to or being an instrument whose sound is modified or augmented by a synthesizer. 2. Relating to or being compositions or a composition performed on synthesizers or synthesized instruments. , or artificially created, the protein Mytilus galloprovincialis (MIT-uh-lis gal-uh-proh-vinchee-AH-lis), which sea mussels use to attach themselves to corals. Talk about "muscle" power! [] MORE TIME? Wish you had more time on your hands? Well, you may have a little more than you think--days are slowly getting longer. French scientists have observed that as Earth's climate gradually heats up, the planet's rotation on its axis seems to slow down. But at a rate of only one half millisecond One thousandth of a second. See space/time and ohnosecond. (unit) millisecond - (ms) One thousandth of a second, one thousand microseconds. A long time for a modern computer. (one thousandth of a second) per century, you may still wish for a longer day! [] STEREO NOSE How come you know what direction a scent comes from? Thank your "stereo" nose. One nostril nostril /nos·tril/ (nos´tril) either of the nares. nos·tril n. A naris. nostril either of the two apertures (nares) of the nose that lead into the nasal cavity. detects a scent before the other, indicating the smell's origin. Stanford University Stanford University, at Stanford, Calif.; coeducational; chartered 1885, opened 1891 as Leland Stanford Junior Univ. (still the legal name). The original campus was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. David Starr Jordan was its first president. scientists learned that each nostril has individual sensors that detect information and separately relay it to the brain. |
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