Tag: Ecosystem
When plants and their microbes are not in sync, the results...
Sheng-Yang He, Michigan State University
Many of us have heard about inflammatory bowel disease, a debilitating condition that is associated with an abnormal collection of...
Rotting feral pig carcasses teach scientists what happens when tons of...
Brandon Barton, Mississippi State University and Abby Jones, Mississippi State University
The unprecedented wildfire raging across Australia is not only destroying human lives, but has...
In Alaska, everyone’s grappling with climate change
Nancy Fresco, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Coastal villages are washing into the Bering Sea, trees are sprouting in the tundra and shipping lanes are opening...
Rock ‘n’ roll is noise pollution – with ecological implications that...
Brandon Barton, Mississippi State University
Despite being one of the best-selling albums of all time, ideology from AC/DC’s “Back in Black” album has gone unchallenged...
Meet the ocean creatures that use a mesh of mucus to...
Kelly Sutherland, University of Oregon
All animals must eat to survive. If you’ve heard the term “grazer” before, it may bring to mind familiar farm...
Life boils down to five ‘rules’ … or so says the...
By James Smith
It may sound overly simple, but just five processes can define us as animals: eating, metabolism, reproduction, dispersal and death.
They might not...
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Warming, decanting and swirling: do they make wine taste better?
By Alex Russell, University of Sydney
Do you inspect the appearance of a wine before swirling it around the glass (holding the stem, naturally)? Inhale...
