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Biologist Single-Handedly Repopulates a Rare Species of Butterfly in His Backyard
By Sara Barnes on July 28, 2016 The California pipevine swallowtail butterfly was once suffering a fate that so many creatures face—the loss of its habitat in San Francisco was causing their population to decline. But thanks to one man’s DIY … Continue reading
There Are More Than Two Human Sexes
In high school biology, we learn that humans are born with either XX or XY chromosomes, and that a person’s internal and external sex organs match those chromosomes. It turns out, however, that sex isn’t that straightforward. Hosted by: Hank … Continue reading
No Air, No Problem: How Parasites Survive Without Oxygen Inside Host – ScienceBlog.com
Around one people on the planet are infected with parasitic helminths, round worms that live in soil and colonize human guts through dirty water. The helminths owe their ability to survive in the low oxygen environment of the human gut to … Continue reading
Dinosaur relative’s genome linked to mammals – ScienceBlog.com
Scientists from the University of Adelaide and South Australian Museum have collaborated with Otago University, New Zealand and a global team to sequence the genome of the tuatara – a rare reptile whose ancestors once roamed the earth with dinosaurs. The … Continue reading
Protecting the Planet with Earth’s Guardians
We can all find small ways to make our world a better place. In the fourth episode of “That’s Amazing”‘ we meet: a boar hunter preserving tradition and protecting birds in the wettest place on earth, an artist who transforms … Continue reading
Reaching Earth’s Corners
In the final episode of “That’s Amazing,” meet two sisters whose ambitious science experiment took them up and out of this world, a woman climbing to outrageous heights in order to clean the nation’s wind turbines, and a photographer wading … Continue reading
Wildlife revival: Conservation wins for tigers and gorillas
As mountain gorillas number more than 1,000 and India’s tiger populations rebound, recovery efforts reap their rewards. Nick Clark As we mark World Conservation Day this week, it is a good time for some heartening news from the environmental … Continue reading
Earth’s atmosphere rings like a giant bell, say researchers – Physics World
Study confirms 200-year-old prediction by Pierre-Simon Laplace The Earth’s entire atmosphere vibrates like a giant bell, with various large-scale resonant waves travelling in both directions around the globe. That is the conclusion of scientists in Japan and the US, who … Continue reading
How Plants Became Meat Eaters
Carnivorous plants capture the imagination because they are so unlike any other plant with their elaborate and sometimes beautiful traps. Seeing as how plants are defined by their ability to create their own food how did some of them take … Continue reading
A taste for humans: How disease-carrying mosquitoes evolved to specialize in biting us – ScienceBlog.com
There are two paths. One leads to the arm of Noah Rose, a postdoctoral research fellow at Princeton University. The other leads to a guinea pig. For some species of mosquitoes, their preference for humans reveals something about their evolution … Continue reading
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