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Plants Respond to Leaf Vibrations Caused by Insects’ Chewing, MU Study Finds

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COLUMBIA, Mo. – Previous studies have suggested that plant growth can be influenced by sound and that plants respond to wind and touch. Now, researchers at the University of Missouri, in a collaboration that brings together audio and chemical analysis, have determined that plants respond to the sounds that caterpillars make when eating plants and that the plants respond with more defenses. (more…)

Chew on this

By Guest PostFebruary 28, 2013Sciencealex fok, art, art 1, art 5, artificial mouth, artificial saliva, chewing, crowns, cycles, dental education, dental fillings, dentistry, fifth generation, force, general mills, human body, human volunteers, implants, mdrcbb, metal cylinders, most complex motions, motor mouth, mts systems corp, ormco, orthodontics maker, oscar, outstanding vision, periodontal tissue, physiological parameters, ralph delong, robotic inventions, toothbrush design, toothbrushing machine, university industrial center, university of minnesota, william douglas

How a ‘motor mouth’ is changing dentistry

If you want your dental fillings, crowns, implants, and so on to last, you can thank ART.

Chewing involves some of the human body’s most complex motions, and ART, the artificial mouth at the University of Minnesota School of Dentistry, can perform a year’s worth of chewing—300,000 cycles—in just a day or two. (more…)