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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]