Worldwide Effort Says Together Science Can Collaboration in science across the world is the key to a better world in the future. Doesnt matter whether its drug resistance or climate change or social inequalities. All of these, I believe, can be broac...
Animal Coloration Can Serve Double Duty Nature may be red in tooth and claw. But one plucky caterpillar dresses in orange and black to avoid becoming somebodys lunch. Whats really surprising, though, is that this distinctive set of stripes can serve...
Boat Noise Means Fish Can't Learn Their Lessons If you've ever gone snorkeling or scuba divingyou know how peaceful it sounds under there... aside from the crackling sound of snapping shrimp. 你如果浮潜或者潜过水，就会知道水下听起来...
To See Gun Injury Drop Hold An NRA Meeting The annual meeting of the National Rifle Association is coming up in May. It's scheduled for Dallas. And if past events are any guide, gun injuries may actually go down in Texas, during the event.When a conv...
Big Cities Have Fewer Tweeters Per Capita Walking in New York City is almost a competitive sport. And people in cities really do walk faster than their country counterparts2.8 feet per second faster, according to a worldwide study in the 1970s. But t...
Needed: Info on Biodiversity Change over Time We find that the composition of ecosystems around the world is changing much more rapidly than we expected. Indeed, much more rapidly than ecological theory predicts. 我们发现，世界各地生态系统...
New Map Knows Noise It's harder and harder to find peace and, especially, quiet. Just ask a field researcher deep in the wilderness. Even in the most remote parts of Alaska the sound of a jet crossing overhead is all too common. 寻求安宁越来越难...
Wildfires Spike Wine with Smoky Notes The fires that ripped across Napa and Sonoma last year damaged some two dozen wineries, and burned others completely to the ground. 去年发生在纳帕和索马诺的大火损毁了二十多家酒厂，并将其他...
Baby Whales Pecked to Death by Gulls Gulls. You may have noticed that gulls can be pretty aggressive when it comes to grabbing food. But that behavior is more intense than you may know. Some kelp gulls snack on baby whales. Live baby whales. 海鸥啊...
Mosquitoes Learn the Smell of Danger When it comes to sucking blood, mosquitos can play favorites: they show preferences for particular species or even certain individuals. At the same time, their tastes can change, depending on the circumstances. On...
Old Trees Are Ecosystem Gold Well, lots of people recognize that as humans get older they tend to have less and less children...trees do it the other way around.David Lindenmayer. He studies conservation, landscape ecology and biodiversity at the Aus...
Seabird Feathers Reveal Less-Resilient Ocean Today we have sophisticated buoys packed with instruments, and robotic underwater drones. But a more than a century ago the seas were surveyed by different types of autonomous data-gathering instruments. W...
Undersea Recordings Reveal a Whale's Tale One of the drawbacks of researching blue whales is that most of the time you can't see what your study subjects are doing, or how many there areor even, where they are. Satellite tags have revealed some of th...
Insects Donate DNA to Unrelated Bugs 昆虫捐献DNA给无关的虫类 You can thank your parents for your DNA. Because humans share genes through sexual reproduction, passing DNA from parent to child. It's known as the 'vertical transfer' of DNA. No...
Bees Prefer Flowers That Proffer Nicotine We humans enjoy coffee and tea, to give our brains a caffeine boost. And bees sometimes sip nectar that naturally contains caffeine, which seems to enhance their memory. Now a study suggests that bees enjoy a...
