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TREE FALLING IN THE FOREST. "The radiated acoustic signals generated by the impact of individual snowflakes upon a body of water have a remarkable similarity to each other and differ principally in the frequency of the emitted sound wave. The acoustic signal of a snowflake impact thus generates a characteristic signature for snowfall that is clearly distinct from other forms of precipitation noise." https://lnkd.in/d3aYQU7 View in LinkedIn

SURFACE-VOLUME SOLUTIONS. "Both transitions were initiated by clever engineering solutions to surface-to-volume constraints. In the case of eukaryotes, energy-converting membranes were moved internally. In the case of multicellularity, other surface- and size-dependent processes were facilitated." https://lnkd.in/dNEtvR8 View in LinkedIn

MELT SHAPES. "Here we observe and show theoretically that while the two-dimensional steady melt shapes of ice are bounded by six planes, these planes are not proper facets but instead are rotated 30 degrees from the prism planes of ice. Finally, the transient melting state exposes 12 apparent crystallographic planes thereby differing substantially from the transient growth state." https://lnkd.in/dwdQa8X View in LinkedIn

BIGGER IS MORE FIT. "The origins of both eukaryotes and multicellularity may have been driven by the advantages of larger size (efficient dispersal, exploitation of more or different food sources, producing more offspring, escaping predators, avoidance of the constraints of low Reynolds numbers)." https://lnkd.in/dNEtvR8 View in LinkedIn

SHAPE FORMERS. "It is in the lexicon of crystal growth that the shape of a growing crystal reflects the underlying microscopic architecture. Although it is known that in weakly nonequilibrium conditions the slowest growing orientations ultimately dominate the asymptotic shape, is the same true for melting?" https://lnkd.in/dwdQa8X View in LinkedIn

Screen-based lifestyles in children. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/dec/25/experts-call-for-official-guidelines-on-child-screen-use?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other View in LinkedIn

MACRO REFLECTS MICRO. "Kepler pondered the question of why snow crystals always exhibit a six-fold symmetry. Although he doesn't refer to the atomistic viewpoint, Kepler does speculate that the hexagonal close-packing of spheres may have something to do with the morphology of snow crystals." https://lnkd.in/dmA4BAK View in LinkedIn

MANY EUKARYOTIC MULTICELLULARITY EVENTS. "The data suggest that eukaryotes are monophyletic. Equally uncontroversial is the evidence that many eukaryotic lineages have independently evolved some form of multicellularity. To reflect the ease of this transition, Grosberg & Strathmann characterize multicellularity as a ‘minor major transition’." https://lnkd.in/dNEtvR8 View in LinkedIn

BIG EFFICIENT TOOLKIT. "By their view, the mitochondrial endosymbiosis coupled with the accumulation of mitochondrial genes in the nuclear genome allowed tight regulation of respiration at relatively low cost in terms of genome size. This genetic and bioenergetic complexity allows eukaryotes to then easily evolve complex multicellularity." https://lnkd.in/dNEtvR8 View in LinkedIn

THIRD BOTHERSOME USSUE. "Why have not prokaryotes evolved complex multicellularity? Their analysis points out crucial differences between prokaryotes and eukaryotes in the availability of energy and the role of energetic differences in the capacity for gene expression." https://lnkd.in/dNEtvR8 View in LinkedIn