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🗓️ 2 October 2019
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0:00.0 | Understanding the human body is a team effort. That's where the Yachtel group comes in. |
0:05.8 | Researchers at Yachtolt have been delving into the secrets of probiotics for 90 years. |
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0:34.1 | This is Scientific American 60 Second Science. I'm Shayla Farsan. |
0:40.0 | Insects can be noisy, but most of the sounds they produce, we can't hear. |
0:45.4 | Take tiny insects called treehoppers. They communicate through vibrations. |
0:50.1 | When a male treehopper is hunting for a mate, he vibrates his body to produce a special love song. |
0:56.0 | They sound like ooh, pooh-poo pooh-poo. |
0:58.0 | Casey Fowler Finn is an assistant professor of biology at St. Louis University. |
1:03.0 | She says if a female tree hopper is interested, she'll vibrate back to the male. |
1:08.0 | Basically her way of saying, hey there. |
1:10.0 | Fowler Finn wondered if tree hopper mating |
1:12.4 | songs might change at different temperatures, which could affect whether the species survives as |
1:17.8 | the climate changes. So she and grad student Doe and Hoxon built custom incubators using plywood and |
1:24.5 | IKEA shelves, plus a special laser that helps them listen to treehoppers. |
1:29.4 | The laser receives information about these tiny vibrations on the plant stem, which we then |
1:34.5 | amplify and process into sounds that we can hear. |
1:37.9 | Turns out, the tree hoppers do sound different when the temperature changes. |
1:42.6 | Here's a male singing at 65 degrees, and another at 97 degrees. |
1:51.8 | But that's not all. The team recorded these songs and played them for females to see if they still |
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