Tag: biology
Rare Florida fossil finally ends debate about how porcupine jaws and...
Natasha S. Vitek, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York)
A rare, nearly complete fossil of an...
The surprising reason why insects circle lights at night: They lose...
Samuel Fabian, Imperial College London; Jamie Theobald, Florida International University, and Yash Sondhi, University of Florida
It’s an observation...
Why don’t fruit bats get diabetes? New understanding of how they’ve...
Wei Gordon, Menlo College and Nadav Ahituv, University of California, San Francisco
People around the world eat too much...
How animals get their skin patterns is a matter of physics...
Ankur Gupta, University of Colorado Boulder
Patterns on animal skin, such as zebra stripes and poison frog color patches,...
Biological sex is far from binary − this college course examines the...
Ari Berkowitz, University of Oklahoma
Uncommon Courses is an occasional series from The Conversation U.S....
What the extreme fire seasons of 1910 and 2020 – and...
Kyra Clark-Wolf, University of Colorado Boulder and Philip Higuera, University of Montana
Strong winds blew across mountain slopes after...
Aging is complicated – a biologist explains why no two people or...
Ellen Quarles, University of Michigan
You likely know someone who seems to age slowly, appearing years younger than their...
Quantum physics proposes a new way to study biology – and...
Clarice D. Aiello, University of California, Los Angeles
Imagine using your cellphone to control the activity of your own...
EXPLORING NATURE
I’ve visited the same Rocky Mountain subalpine meadow weekly for a...
Julian Resasco, University of Colorado Boulder
Imagine a bee crawling into a bright yellow flower.
This...
