Ecology & Zoology

Horses have been shown to be able to distinguish between angry and happy human facial expressions, according to psychologists who studied how 28 horses reacted to seeing photographs of positive versus negative human facial expressions. ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 9 2016 - 9:21pm

25 Signs Your Cat Could Be In Pain

Cat owners tare familiar with their pets’ individual personalities, habits and preferences, and they can tell when the behavior is different than normal, but understanding what these changes mean can be much more difficult. ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 28 2016 - 9:55am

Bats In Asia Resitant To White-Nose Syndrome Fungus

As the deadly bat disease called white-nose syndrome continues to spread across North America, scientists are studying bats in China to understand how they are able to survive infections with the same fungus that has wiped out millions of North American b ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 9 2016 - 8:30am

Chemical Fingerprints Implicate Wind Turbines Killing Bats

Thanks to government mandates and ongoing subsidies, wind energy has become more popular, and one impact of large-scale wind energy development has been widespread mortality of bats. A new study tracks down the origin of bats killed by wind turbines in th ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 17 2016 - 9:18am

Green Light Stops Sea Turtle Deaths

Illuminating fishing nets is a cost-effective means of dramatically reducing the number of sea turtles getting caught and dying unnecessarily, conservation biologists at the University of Exeter have found. Dr Jeffrey Mangel, a Darwin Initiative research ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 25 2016 - 8:29am

The Withering Process

During their life, plants constantly renew themselves. They sprout new leaves in the spring and shed them in the fall. No longer needed, damaged or dead organs such as blossoms and leaves are also cast off by a process known as abscission. By doing so, pl ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 18 2016 - 8:30am

Are Lab Mice Too Cold? It Makes A Difference In Science

A typical mouse laboratory is kept between 20 and 26 degrees C, but if the mice had it their way, it would be a warm 30 degrees C. While the mice are still considered healthy at cooler temperatures, they expend more energy to maintain their core temperatu ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 19 2016 - 12:19pm

Bed Bugs Have Favorite Colors- Here Is What They Are

Researchers wondered whether bed bugs preferred certain colors for their hiding places, so they did some testing in the lab. The tests consisted of using small tent-like harborages that were made from colored cardstock and placed in Petri dishes. A bed bu ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 25 2016 - 7:38pm

Scientists Discover Oral Sex In Spiders

Madagascan Darwin's bark spider (Caerostris darwini) are a sexually size dimorphic species from Madagascar, with females several times larger and heavier than males. If you want a weird science project for school, kids, these are the way to go. C. da ...

Article - News Staff - May 1 2016 - 9:18am

Sorry Galileo, Coastal Birds Use Tides And Moon Phases

Galileo is regarded as an important figure today, because he was put under house arrest by his church for ridiculing the Pope, but for much of his career he was derided by other scientists. Both Kepler and mathematics knew Galileo was wrong about the moon ...

Article - News Staff - May 4 2016 - 7:59am