Plants & Animals
Jul 29, 2019
Desert seed-harvesting ants will save nestmates from spiderwebs
It started out as a typical day at work for ant researcher Christina Kwapich.
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Plants & Animals
Jul 16, 2019
When and where Nile crocodiles attack
The Nile crocodile is Africa's largest, and most widely distributed, crocodile. It can be found in Egypt in the North, through Central and East Africa, down to South Africa. The largest specimens and concentrations of these ...
Ecology
May 29, 2019
Some songbird nests are especially vulnerable to magpie predation
A new study has revealed a range of factors that cause a variation in predation by magpies on farmland songbirds.
Ecology
May 14, 2019
New threat revealed for baby turtles
New research has revealed that marine turtle hatchlings entering the ocean close to jetties have a high likelihood of being eaten.
Internet
May 7, 2019
Google's privacy promises don't sway many experts
Google announced new privacy tools Tuesday intended to give people more control over how they're being tracked on the go or in their own home, part of a broader effort by big tech companies to counter increasing scrutiny ...
Environment
Apr 26, 2019
US Southeast Atlantic coast facing high threat of sea-level rise in the next 10 years
New research shows 75 percent of the Atlantic Coast from North Carolina to Central Florida will be highly vulnerable to erosion and inundation from rising tides by 2030, negatively impacting many coastal species' nesting ...
Robotics
Mar 27, 2019
The social animals that are inspiring new behaviours for robot swarms
From flocks of birds to fish schools in the sea, or towering termite mounds, many social groups in nature exist together to survive and thrive. This cooperative behaviour can be used by engineers as "bio-inspiration" to solve ...
Ecology
Mar 20, 2019
Beware of sleeping queens underfoot this spring
Scientists at Queen Mary University of London have discovered a never before reported behaviour of queen bumblebees.
Ecology
Mar 14, 2019
Significant milestone in whooping crane recovery
This week marks a significant milestone in the conservation and recovery of the endangered whooping crane. On March 11 and 13, the U.S. Geological Survey's Patuxent Wildlife Research Center transferred its last two cranes ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 22, 2019
Being a dad is hard when you're a plainfin midshipman fish
Each spring, male plainfin midshipman fish (Porichthys notatus) —a kind of toadfish —emerge from the depths of the Pacific Ocean to breed on the beach. They overwhelm the beach at low tide, wedge themselves beneath ...
