Research roundup: Tattooed tardigrades and splash-free urinals

Also: The first live footage of a colossal baby squid; digitally unfolding an early medieval manuscript.

Ars Technica
I am seeing a few more #tardigrades in my feed and I don't know why but I am here for it.

2/2 BTW, my interview guest got grumpy. I never experienced such a cuddly person and so grumpy. But she has a great message for humans!

#tardigrades #NatureMatchCuts

'Imagine a human being downsized to our mighty body size, having to find prey in a watery environment, while connecting all your ganglions with your brain and your body has only about 1.000 cells! Wouldn't you be wobbly, too?' Mrs Tardy in my coming #NatureMatchCuts episode. I love her. #tardigrades
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"Imagine a human being downsized to our mighty body size, having to find prey in a watery environment, while connecting all your ganglions with your brain - and your body has only about 1.000 cells! Wouldn't you be wobbly, too?"
Mrs Tardy in my new podcast episode. I love her.

#NatureMatchCuts #tardigrades

(27 Apr) Researchers Tattooed Tardigrades. They Promise It Will Be Useful

The world’s tiniest animal somehow got more hardcore.

https://s.faithcollapsing.com/vti93
Archive: ia: https://s.faithcollapsing.com/qfxka

#bioengineering #biology #tardigrades #tattoos

Researchers Tattooed Tardigrades. They Promise It Will Be Useful

The world’s tiniest animal somehow got more hardcore.

Gizmodo
Scientists have found a way to ‘tattoo’ tardigrades

If you haven’t heard of a tardigrade before, prepare to be wowed. These clumsy, eight-legged creatures, nicknamed water bears, are about half a millimeter long and can survive practically anything: freezing temperatures, near starvation, high pressure, radiation exposure, outer space and more. Researchers reporting in ACS’ Nano Letters took advantage of the tardigrade’s nearly indestructible nature and gave the critters tiny “tattoos” to test a microfabrication technique to build microscopic, biocompatible devices.

EurekAlert!

Was selbst ihr Nerds vielleicht noch nicht über Bärtierchen wusstet. (Plus eine etwas überlange Einleitung über die halbe Evolutionsgeschichte, aber speichert dieses Wissen, solange es noch verfügbar ist.)

https://youtu.be/BZbmZYouTLA?si=vD-1pn33hcNwfzG_

#evolution #zoology #tardigrades

The Biology of Tardigrades (and the phylogeny of all animals) | The Ultimate Survivors

YouTube
It’s heroic, hardy and less than a millimetre long: meet the 2025 invertebrate of the year

Guardian readers around the world voted in the this year’s contest, but which creature won, asks natural history writer Patrick Barkham

The Guardian