The Wood-Wide Web, 1 Trillion Trees, Gorilla Festivals, And Teeny Robots
On this monthly roundup, Alistair Jennings from Inside Science sums up some of July’s most interesting science: the 50th anniversary of the moon landing, planting 1 trillion trees on Earth, gorilla hangouts, robots and cyborgs, and how one tree gets by with a little help from its friends.
References:
1:One Giant Leap for Mankind: The 50th Anniversary of Apollo 11
https://www.insidescience.org/apollo50
2: The global tree restoration potential
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/365/6448/76
3: Medieval megadroughts in the American Southwest
https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/7/eaax0087
4: Stabilizing the West Antarctic Ice Sheet
https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/7/eaaw4132
5: Future distribution of an iconic species in Joshua Tree National Park
https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ecs2.2763
6: Mostly female loggerhead sea turtles
https://www.int-res.com/abstracts/meps/v621/p209-219/
7: Gorilla social structures
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2019.0681
8: How a leafless tree stump survives
https://www.cell.com/iscience/pdf/S2589-0042(19)30146-4.pdf
9: Tree Stump Stays Alive with a Little Help from Neighboring Trees
https://www.insidescience.org/news/tree-stump-stays-alive-little-help-neighboring-trees
10: Millirobots
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1388-8
11: Artificial skin
https://robotics.sciencemag.org/content/4/32/eaax2198
12: Artificial muscle
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/365/6449/145
13: Micro bristle bots
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6439/ab309b
14: Cross-talking parasitic plants
