Word: flytrap
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...Harvard professor with a passion for studying everyday phenomena, including how worms wriggle, flags flap, and skin shrivels, has co-authored a report research explaining how the Venus flytrap is able to snap shut almost instantaneously...
Mahadevan explained in an interview that when an insect lands on one of the flytrap’s hinged leaves, it stimulates small hairs on their surfaces. This stimulation moves water within the plant and causes the flytrap to store elastic energy, which is then released as the flytrap shuts. Once the plant snaps shut, it takes hours to reopen...
...artistic" poses since 1997. With police threatening to shut down the event - several complaints are pending, so Von Hagens may yet be arrested - and some medical professionals calling it a travesty, we wanted sound bites of public outrage, or at least shock. We'd fallen into a Venus-flytrap of p.r., since anything we wrote would be more publicity for Von Hagens' one-man (and a lot of dead bodies) show. We didn't care; we knew a good story when we saw one. Or so we thought. Unfortunately for our stories, the non-journalists in attendance seemed nonplussed. David...