Insects are integral to most freshwater and terrestrial food webs, but due to their accumulation of environmental pollutants they are also contaminant vectors that threaten reproduction, development, ...

A fittingly sly comment from renowned Dutch graphic artist Maurits Cornelis Escher (1898–1972), whose complex and ambiguous drawings continue to leave hasty interpretations far behind. Long before the ...

Image metamorphosis using simple features provides flexible and easy control of visual effects. The feature-based image metamorphosis algorithm proposed by Beier and Neely (1992) suffers from two ...

This work aimed to study morphometrically the midgut of the stingless bee Melipona quadrifasciata anthidioides (Lepeletier), in an attempt to establish whether increased cell volume can explain the ...

We tested whether this hypothesis applies to metamorphosis,” commented Alexandra Ozerova, the lead author of the paper and PhD student at Skoltech’s Life Sciences program. Results of the new study ...

Escher may be best known for his mind-bending drawings, but a coming sale at Christie's shows a broader picture of the Dutch artist.