Tag Archives: Ecology / Environment

[ad_1] IMAGE: An image obtained by the system showing bar-coded bees inside the observation hive. The outlines reflect whether a barcode could be successfully decoded (green), could not be decrypted (red), or if it was … More Credits: Tim Gernat, University of Illinois Bees and humans are as diverse organisms …

[ad_1] You may not normally think about the smell of corals or how the smell changes during heat stress. However, this is what researchers from the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), the University of Sydney and Southern Cross University set out to investigate on the Great Barrier Reef. Each organism …

[ad_1] IMAGE: A young Tasmanian devil. Tasmanian devils are threatened by devil 1 face tumor (DFT1), a transmissible cancer. View More Credit: Maximilian Stammnitz A transmissible cancer in the Tasmanian devil has evolved over the past two decades, with some lineages spreading and replacing others, according to a new study …

[ad_1] Dolphins actively slow their hearts before diving and can even adjust their heart rate depending on how long they intend to dive, suggests a new study. Posted in Frontiers in physiology, the findings provide new insights into how marine mammals conserve oxygen and adapt to pressure when diving. The …

[ad_1] Mechanical engineer Michael Gollner and his graduate student, Sriram Bharath Hariharan, of the University of California, Berkeley, recently visited NASA’s John H. Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio. There, they dropped burning objects into a deep pit and studied how fire vortices form in microgravity conditions. The Glenn Center …

[ad_1] IMAGE: Willow blossoms provide nectar for many active insects in early spring. The beginning of flowering in the goat willow (Salix caprea) was one of the phenological events studied … view More Credit: Svetlana Bondarchuk To do the right thing at the right time, organisms must pick up signals …

[ad_1] In the absence of euphorbia – their favorite food – the caterpillars of monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) go from peaceful feeders to aggressive fighters. Researchers reporting in the journal iScience on November 19 he observed that caterpillars with less access to food were more likely to lunge at others …

[ad_1] IMAGE: The wrinkled-faced Centurio senex bat males display a hairy crease that can be pulled up to cover the lower half of the face like a mask. View More Credit: Marco Tschapka Wrinkled-faced bats not only have the most twisted faces of any bat species, the males also have …

[ad_1] IMAGE: The northern cardinal has relatively low frequency chant and delayed playback in response to noise pollution. View More Credit: David Keeling Are you looking for a bird’s-eye view of human impact? A new study published in the journal Nature provides the most comprehensive picture of how human noise …

[ad_1] IMAGE: A night vision camera trap captured this image of mountain lions drinking from a stream in Stanford’s Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve. View More Credit: Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve When the wolves returned to Yellowstone in 1995, no one imagined that predators would literally change the course of rivers …