Bird flu research back on
A little over year ago, influenza researchers called a moratorium on their work involving H5N1, otherwise known as bird flu. Ordinarily, we can’t contract the disease from birds, so the […]
Monthly Archives: January 2013
Chicago the biggest killer of migratory birds
We’ve got to face facts: We live within a killing machine. According to a piece posted on Grist this week, our skyline kills more birds every year than any other […]
End could be in sight for experimental chimps
Sometime in the near future, all 451 chimpanzees now owned or being used in labs for the National Institutes of Health may be moved to sanctuaries. It’s a big step […]
The everlasting eggstopper
If you ever celebrated Easter with an egg hunt, you’d expect those colorful plastic eggs to hold some kind of surprise. It could be some quarters, it could be a […]
Bad news for crustacean lovers
There’s nothing more succulent than fresh crab or lobster straight out of the shell. And if you’re a pescetarian like me, you may have comforted yourself by saying, “It’s okay […]
One rockin’ spider
It turns out California is an Eden of biodiversity for spiders. Director of the Auburn University Museum of Natural History and taxonomist Jason Bond has identified 33 new species in […]
Take that, double helix
Sure, two strands of DNA are pretty impressive, but what about four strands? Scientists at Cambridge University found that not only does it exist, it exists in functioning human cells. […]
The Mona Lisa goes to space
Not really, just a copy of her. NASA is experimenting with laser communication to space, which, once mastered, will be a more reliable way of communicating across larger distances throughout […]
Frightening changes for elephants’ population dynamics
In storied reserves like Kenya’s Amboseli National Park or South Africa’s Kruger National Park, elephant populations have been studied for decades. But reserves Samburu and Buffalo Springs in Kenya are just […]
Cornell puts together one impressive library
A warning to biology nerds everywhere: Prepare for all your work ethic today to evaporate. The Cornell Lab of Ornithology has put together the Macaulay Library, an exhaustive collection of […]
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