hydra

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• As long as that remains the case, harassing groups can attack like hydras, unafraid to lose one, two, or three hundred heads if it means they damage their targets.

• The Technion group microscopically examined a piece of hydra tissue as it regenerated, particularly its multicellular fibers that lie parallel to the long axis of a mature hydra.

• In 2020, physicists and biologists at the Technion in Israel analyzed the hydra, a fresh-water animal up to a centimeter long.

• If it was the common ancestor between hydras and humans, it likely had neurons and something like muscle that enabled it to move — and the absence of that movement was characteristic of its version of sleep, fulfilling its special needs.

• The new revelations about sleep in hydras push the sleep discoveries to a new extreme.

• But this may be like the Hydra, where something new can grow in its place.

• Antifragile things, meanwhile, are strengthened by it—just as Hydra grows stronger and more multiheaded with every decapitation.

• Editor's note: An earlier version of this article confused the monster Hydra with Medusa.

• The gang is a hydra, he said, and Suffolk County has seen fluctuations in gang activity.

• But the animal itself is the same "hydra-headed monster," let whomsoever may fancy to pet it.

• I aimed at the many-headed hydra whose visible representative was Frick.