Over 50 percent of nearly 600 surveyed bird species may lose more than half of…
Month: September 2015
Animal without synapses feeds by external digestion using global, local cellular control
A multicellular marine animal without organs, Trichoplax’s feeding behavior may include cellular coordination, resulting in…
Seal pups listen for long distance calls to locate their mothers
Antarctic fur seal pups identify the mother’s vocal pitch at longer distance and use other…
Only above-water microbes play a role in cave development
Only the microbes located above the water’s surface contribute to the development of hydrogen-sulfide-rich caves,…
Seeing the forest and the trees, all three trillion of them
A new international study estimates that there are more than 3 trillion trees on Earth,…
Change in environment can lead to rapid evolution
A new study is showing that rapid evolution can occur in response to environmental changes.
Evidence that Earth’s first mass extinction was caused by critters not catastrophe
The Earth’s first mass extinction event 540 million years ago was caused not by a…
For 2-D boron, it’s all about that base
If two-dimensional boron can be made at all, the material’s substrate will have a significant…
Feeling blue and seeing blue: Sadness may impair color perception
The world might seem a little grayer than usual when we’re down in the dumps…
Making fuel from light
Photosynthesis has given life to the planet. While scientists have been studying and mimicking the…