Enlarge / How much is preserving something like this worth? (credit: Karen Chan 16, Miguel.v, and Jorge Morales Piderit) Is there a way to put a dollar amount on pristine forests or marshlands? The United Nations believes so—and that the ability to do it might be a valuable step toward combating the slew of environmental […]
Enlarge / “What are you looking at?” The Asian Giant Hornet, aka a “murder hornet,” is not to be trifled with. (credit: Gary Alpert) In November 2019, a beekeeper in Blaine, Washington, named Ted McFall was horrified to discover thousands of tiny mutilated bodies littering the ground: an entire colony of his honeybees had been […]
Scientists at the University of Arizona set up their own “Bug Fight Club” in the lab, staging wrestling matches between insects to learn more about defensive structures and the evolution of weapons in the animal kingdom. They outlined their findings in two separate papers, one published last fall in the journal Functional Ecology and the […]
Expand / Researchers across the globe are working not merely to nail the present COVID-19 outbreak, but can also be racing to avoid a much worse outbreak later on. As much harm as the present coronavirus pandemic has imposed on the planet at large–murdering over 230,000 American taxpayers so much, and almost 1.2 million people […]
“Nice burrow you’ve got there. I need it.” Patrick Green at the University of Exeter filmed this struggle between mantis shrimp. Size matters into the small-but-mighty mantis shrimp, that reveal a marked taste for burrows in coral rubble using amounts that closely fit their particular body dimensions or are only a little bigger –in other […]