It’s also a much more dynamic signal ... tip of the electrical iceberg here,” he says. Reference: Clarke, Whitney, Sutton & Robert. Detection and Learning of Floral Electric Fields by Bumblebees.

They could act as antennas for bees’ electrical signals and transmit ... those produced by a bee’s wings flapping in an electric field. The antennas were placed above daffodils that the ...

The electric fields were applied in combination with ... Our results demonstrate that the energy of the electrical signal, and not the type of electrical signal (AC or DC or SP), is the key ...

elegans) jumps onto a bumblebee along an electrical field to hitch a ride ... of the plate to the lid—and they were using electric fields to do so. They could even leap from the Petri dish ...

A new 'Cytoelectric Coupling' hypothesis posits that fluctuating electric fields optimize ... and Johns Hopkins University posits that the electrical fields of the network influence the physical ...

Called electroreception, the biological ability to perceive natural electrical stimuli is widespread ... their mouths that allow them to detect electric fields. Scientists believe sharks use ...

And it may give researchers new respect for the role of electrical activity. Electric fields are often dismissed as less important than biochemical or mechanical signals. “We need to change that ...

which is thought to use its electrical sense for foraging. A dolphin swam to the rig and rested her jaw on a bar in the experimental rig to position herself. When she felt an electric field ...