By day, insects provide the white noise of the South, but the night belongs to the amphibians. In a typical year, the Southern air hangs heavy from the humidity and the sounds of wildlife.

Biology - Plants & Animals

May 17, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 0 |

Plants use underground fungal networks to warn their neighbours of aphid attack, UK scientists have discovered.

Biology - Ecology

May 10, 2013 4.6 / 5 (5) 0 |

Meticulous attention to food safety is a good thing. As consumers, we like to hear that produce growers and distributers go above and beyond food safety mandates to ensure that healthy fresh fruits and vegetables do not carry ...

Biology - Ecology

May 06, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0

(Phys.org) —Today's smartphones and computers offer gestural interfaces where information arrives at users' fingertips with a swipe of a hand. Still, researchers have found that most technology falls short in making people ...

Technology - Computer Sciences

Mar 27, 2013 not rated yet 0 |

(Phys.org) —Catching rides on cargo ships and fishing boats, many invasive species are now covering our shorelines and compromising the existence of our native marine life.

Biology - Ecology

Mar 22, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 0 |

Highly developed antennae containing different types of olfactory receptors allow insects to use minute amounts of odors for orientation towards resources like food, oviposition sites or mates. Scientists ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Mar 18, 2013 not rated yet 0 |

(Phys.org)—Ecologists often rely on the twin standards of the variety and numbers of species to describe a given region's diversity. But scaling down the size also scales up the numbers: On and in our bodies is a community ...

Biology - Ecology

Feb 07, 2013 not rated yet 0

Gravity affects the ecology and evolution of every living organism. In plants, the general response to gravity is well known: their roots respond positively, growing down, into the soil, and their stems respond ...

Biology - Biotechnology

Feb 04, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0 |

(Phys.org)—A research team from Germany has found a new way to study animal diversity in the wild – capture carrion flies and analyze the DNA found in their digestive tracks. The team discovered the new ...

Biology - Ecology

Jan 09, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 1 |

The value of health insurance should be included in official measures of U.S. income and poverty, because it will help us to better evaluate public policies like Obamacare, according to a new study by a Cornell economist ...

Other Sciences - Social Sciences

Nov 20, 2012 5 / 5 (3) 1

Eating certain veggies not only supplies key nutrients, it may also influence hormone levels and behaviors such as aggression and sexual activity, says a new study led by researchers at the University of ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Nov 19, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 1 |

(Phys.org)—In a new study published in the journal Ecology and Evolution, researchers show that rising sea levels produced by deglaciation, or the melting of glaciers, caused the extinction of most bats i ...

Biology - Ecology

Nov 08, 2012 3 / 5 (1) 0

(Phys.org)—A larger-scale approach to sustainable farming could be more beneficial for wildlife than our current system of farm-based payments, according to University of Leeds researchers.

Biology - Ecology

Sep 10, 2012 5 / 5 (2) 0

Hormone-mimicking chemicals released into rivers have been found to impact the mating choices of fish, a new study has revealed. The controversial chemical BPA, which emits oestrogen-like properties, was found to alter an ...

Biology - Ecology

Jul 11, 2012 3 / 5 (2) 1 |

Mathematicians at the University of York in the UK and the University of Canterbury in New Zealand say they have disproved a widely accepted theory underpinning the operation of complex networks of interactions in the natural ...

Other Sciences - Mathematics

Jun 20, 2012 5 / 5 (10) 0 |