Tag: biology
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...
Vagrant, machine or pioneer? How we think about a roving eagle...
Adriana Craciun, Boston University
The Steller’s sea eagle is one of the largest and most aggressive raptors in the...
Smell is the crucial sense that holds ant society together, helping...
Laurence Zwiebel, Vanderbilt University and Stephen Ferguson, Vanderbilt University
Ants can be found in nearly every location on Earth,...
Unlocking secrets of the honeybee dance language – bees learn and...
James C. Nieh, University of California, San Diego
The Greek historian Herodotus reported over 2,000 years ago on a...
EXPLORING NATURE
Memories of the good parts of using drugs can keep people...
Ana Clara Bobadilla, Colorado State University
Everyday human behavior is guided and shaped by the search for rewards. This...
