A NEW FLY TRAP

A Simple Fly Trap

pattern has been devised :? An empty ghi tin is placed upright and cut across the top medially. A similar cut is made parallel across the front of the tin about three inches from the bottom and the cut extended up each side to meet the top cut, the part removed being shaped like a banker's shovel. A modified pattern is made by cutting perpendicularly through the top to within three inches of th...

New fly trap may reduce prevalence of blindness from trachoma.

partners and acquiring syphilis (Journal of the American Medical Association, 2000, 284: 447–449). In a case–control study, infected individuals were almost four times as likely to have met their sexual partners in an Internet chat room, an electronic forum which allows the exchange of messages via computer, compared to a non-infected control group of homosexual men who presented to a clinic. T...

Receptor Response in Venus's Fly-Trap

The insect-trapping movement of the plant Dionaea muscipula (Venus's fly-trap) is mediated by the stimulation of mechanosensory hairs located on the surface of the trap. It is known that stimulation of the hairs is followed by action potentials which are propagated over the surface of the trap. It has been reported that action potentials always precede trap closure. The occurrence of non-propag...

Mating disruption / SIR New trap and lure formulations for Rhagoletis species and olive fruit fly

A New Atom Trap: The Annular Shell Atom Trap (ASAT)

In the course of exploring some aspects of atom guiding in a hollow, optical fiber, a small negative potential energy well was found just in front of the repulsive or guiding barrier. This results from the optical dipole and the van der Waals potentials. The ground state for atoms bound in this negative potential well was determined by numerically solving the Schrödinger eq. and it was found th...