When a wild turtle recovers from an accident and is released back into the wild, what happens next? A new study from North Carolina State University reveals that finding those answers can often be just as challenging as saving ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 9, 2023
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It has been more than sixty years since Dr. Frank Drake (father of the Drake Equation) and his colleagues mounted the first Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) survey. This was known as Project Ozma, which relied ...
Astronomy
Apr 18, 2023
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With a transmitter less powerful than a microwave oven, a team of scientists and engineers has used the National Science Foundation's Green Bank Telescope (GBT) and Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) to make the highest-resolution ...
Planetary Sciences
Jan 10, 2023
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Biologging is the practice of attaching devices to animals so that scientific data can be collected. For decades, basic biologgers have been used to relay physiological data including an animal's heart rate or body temperature. ...
Ecology
Jan 4, 2023
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When the Iowa Monarch Conservation Consortium was formed seven years ago, Iowa State University researchers faced two big questions about reestablishing the milkweed and other wildflowers needed for the iconic butterfly's ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 14, 2022
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Migratory insects number in the trillions. They're a major part of global ecosystems, helping to transport nutrients and pollen across continents—and often traveling thousands of kilometers in the process.
Plants & Animals
Aug 12, 2022
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A team of biologists recently hauled in the heaviest Burmese python ever captured in Florida, officials said.
Plants & Animals
Jun 22, 2022
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Research to understand the movements of fish in Top End waterways has found that barramundi exhibit very accurate homing behavior, traveling up to 80 km to their "home" billabongs after wet season rains.
Plants & Animals
Jan 29, 2020
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For the first-time ever, scientists have deployed animal-borne cameras on pangolins—the world's most trafficked wild mammal.
Plants & Animals
Sep 19, 2019
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People typically sleep seven to eight hours in one stretch and stay awake for the rest of the day. Evolutionary scientists have assumed that this rhythm of sleep arose when our early ancestors went from being nocturnal to ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 18, 2019
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