Biology teachers around the world commonly introduce their students to the concept of ‘trophic cascades’ with an example from Yellowstone National Park in the United States.
It starts with the removal of wolves, and ends with the collapse of a forest.
Returning wolves to the ecosystem has been…
The Aero Engine Corporation of China recently conducted…
On May 24, China launched the Shenzhou-23 mission to the…
Cockroaches tend to be thought of as the creatures that keep on living through anything, in part due to their DNA – which can code for all kinds of useful survival tricks, from neutralizing toxins to limb regeneration.
Now a study led by researchers from the University of Sydney has taken a…
“We thought that’s probably the one that’s least likely to pop up,” Geisbert says. “We guessed wrong.”
Concerned by that knowledge gap, in 2011 he decided to modify a vaccine, which led to the crab-eating macaque study. In the same study, he also finally tested a blend of existing…
More than 100 million years ago, a flying reptile called a pterosaur flew over the oceans hunting squid and fish.
Much more recently, one of its wing bones was discovered in Brazil, transformed over the aeons into a fossil made of a complex assemblage of different chemicals and minerals.
And…
