Ecology & Zoology

Alternative Medicine Is Ruining The Future Of 155 Threatened Species- Yet Helps No One

A new meta-analysis finds what scientists outside the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health have long known- alternatives to medicine, now called Integrative Medicine after failing as Complementary ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 13 2020 - 6:01am

How Fast Can Dogs Learn New Words? The Answer

Most dog owners will say that dogs understand tone, and interpret that rather than words, and that most dogs do not learn words (i.e. names of objects), unless extensively trained, but a new analysis shows that is not always the case. Some dogs have some e ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 26 2021 - 8:58am

Latest Data Show Bees Are Still Thriving At An Alarming Rate

The latest numbers on honeybee colonies have been released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and they show that the Beepocalypse we keep being warned about has been postponed for another year. ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Mar 18 2021 - 3:47pm

Science Could Save Africa $4 Trillion A Year- But Europeans Won't Let It

In the bizarre maze of modern cultural geopolitics, European progressives spend a lot of time rending garments about their history of colonialism, slavery, and exploitation while engaging in it- using financial blockades if former colonies do not comply. I ...

Article - Hank Campbell - May 22 2021 - 1:01pm

How To Speak Cicada

(Inside Science)-- When you first hear it, a cicada chorus may sound like simple buzzing. But to a cicada, that cacophony is full of meaning.  There are three species in Brood X, the cohort of 17-year cicadas now emerging in much of the eastern U.S. Membe ...

Article - Inside Science - Jun 23 2021 - 5:31am

Beekeeper Survey Shows 6% Higher Losses Last Year Than The 39% Average

Honeybees die each year in great quantities and some years are worse than others. Since they are a big business, primarily as roving pollinators for crops that need them at a certain time (like almonds(1) there is always a concern about how to keep losses ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jun 23 2021 - 12:31pm

Beware Pests; There Is A New Carnivorous Plant Out There

Urban people may believe nature is balanced and peaceful and pristine but biologists know that nature really just wants to suck the nutrients from your dead corpse. Insects have more nature to worry about, in the form of the delicate stalk and pretty white ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 9 2021 - 7:10pm

Citrus Canker Returns To Texas, This Time With An Asian Strain

Citrus canker, caused by the bacterium Xanthomonas citri, was first identified in the United States near the Florida-Georgia border in 1910 and then raged across southern states.  It was considered eradicated in 1933, thanks to chemical intervention, but i ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 16 2021 - 1:11pm

Playful Waterbabies — Porpoise

These delightfully friendly and super smart fellows are Dall's porpoise. Porpoise are marine mammals who live in our world's oceans and breathe air at the surface, similar to humans. They have lungs, inhaling and exhaling through a blowhole at t ...

Article - Heidi Henderson - Aug 23 2021 - 2:10pm

Decapods: Warrior Crabs

Look how epic this little guy is! He is a crab — and if you asked him, the fiercest warrior that ever lived. While that may not be strictly true, crabs do have the heart of a warrior and will raise their claws, sometimes only millimetres into the air, to ...

Blog Post - Heidi Henderson - Aug 24 2021 - 3:05pm