Sentences with phrase «life hydras»
By fiddling with the cytoskeletons of real - life hydras, researchers found that the pond polyps rely on mechanical forces as well as molecular cues to regenerate head and tentacles in the right places (SN: 3/4/17, p. 19).
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In the mid-1700s, for instance, Swiss researcher Abraham Trembley noted that when chopped into pieces, hydra — tubelike creatures with tentacles that live in fresh water — could grow back into complete, new organisms.
When a live animal — a small shrimp, perhaps — brushes against its tentacles, the hydra shoots out poisoned barbs to sting and paralyze its prey.
Read this week's Science Careers - produced Working Life story for some advice about how you too can win your battles with the hydra.
The HYDRA scientist and First Avenger baddie prolonged his life by embedding his brain in a computer system hidden under a secret base, but he blew himself up in an attempt to take out Cap and Black Widow.
For the Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy in 1997, in among the still lifes and daubs of favourite pets, he submitted a large painting entitled The Killer - Critic Assassinated By His Widower, Even, a composition indebted to Manet's Execution of Maximilian, in which two figures fire bullets into the engorged faces of a hydra - headed monster, whose tongue extends across the picture with the words «yellow press, yellow press, kill, kill, kill» written upon it.