Why is it so hard to swat a fly? Scientists say they found that halteres — dumbbell-shaped evolutionary remnants of wings — are the reason why houseflies can takeoff quickly from any surface.
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During a typical fall term, students in Steven Hauck’s introductory geology lab would be handling rock and mineral samples together in class. Rebecca Benard’s anatomy and physiology students would be gathered around a model skeleton during her office hours, asking questions. Peter Shulman would be taking his advanced history students as a group...
Case Western Reserve University researchers are part of an international team striving to crack the secrets of how our neurons—the nerve cells that send and receive signals to and from the brain—work together to regulate physical movements. The research is spearheaded by Drs. Hillel Chiel of Biology and Peter...
Emmitt Jolly, an associate professor of biology at Case Western Reserve University, grew up in Alabama, just 20 miles from Tuskegee University. As a teenager, he worked at a farm in sweltering heat and, when that work ended, cleaned bathrooms and bussed tables at a local truck stop.
Jolly’s fortunes...