MINISFORUM MS-R1 mini PC has a 12-core Arm processor and PCIe x16 slot for a dGPU

The MINISFORUM MS-R1 is a small desktop computer with support for up to 64GB of RAM, a PCIe 4.0 x16 slot for an optional discrete GPU, and plenty of I/O features including two 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports and support for multiple displays. What makes this…

The MINISFORUM MS-R1 is a small desktop computer with support for up to 64GB of RAM, a PCIe 4.0 x16 slot for an optional discrete GPU, and plenty of I/O features including two 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports and support for multiple displays. What makes this PC stand out though is that instead of an Intel or […]

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Apple’s next MacBook could be a budget model to compete with mid-range Windows laptops (and high-end Chromebooks)

Apple’s laptop strategy has pretty much always been the same: offer premium products for customers willing to pay high prices for high-quality hardware designed to run the Mac software. While the company has occasionally toyed with offering &#822…

Apple’s laptop strategy has pretty much always been the same: offer premium products for customers willing to pay high prices for high-quality hardware designed to run the Mac software. While the company has occasionally toyed with offering “budget” models, that usually means selling previous-gen hardware at discounted prices. But according to a report from Bloomberg’s […]

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Some stinkbugs’ legs carry a mobile fungal garden

A dedicated organ grows the fungus, which deters parasitic wasps.

Many insect species hear using tympanal organs, membranes roughly resembling our eardrums but located on their legs. Grasshoppers, mantises, and moths all have them, and for decades, we thought that female stinkbugs of the Dinidoridae family have them, too, although located a bit unusually on their hind rather than front legs.

Suspecting that they use their hind leg tympanal organs to listen to male courtship songs, a team of Japanese researchers took a closer look at the organs in Megymenum gracilicorne, a Dinidoridae stinkbug species native to Japan. They discovered that these “tympanal organs” were not what they seemed. They’re actually mobile fungal nurseries of a kind we’ve never seen before.

Portable gardens

Dinidoridae is a small stinkbug family that lives exclusively in Asia. The bug did attract some scientific attention, but not nearly as much as its larger relatives like Pentatomidae. Prior work looking specifically into organs growing on the hind legs of Dinidoridae females was thus somewhat limited. “Most research relied on taxonomic and morphological approaches. Some taxonomists did describe that female Dinidoridae stinkbugs have an enlarged part on the hind legs that looks like the tympanal organ you can find, for example, in crickets,” said Takema Fukatsu, an evolutionary biologist at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Tokyo.

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