Enlarge / The Shedd Aquarium in Chicago partnered with microbiologists at Northwestern University to find out why chloroquine kept disappearing from the water in the quarantine habitat. (credit: lan Schein Photography / Getty Images) Founded in 1930, Chicago’s Shedd Aquarium is not just a popular tourist attraction. Its staff also aids in worldwide conservation efforts […]
Enlarge / University of California, Riverside scientists suspended fresh pieces of raw chicken from branches to attract carrion-feeding “vulture bees” in Costa Rica. (credit: Quinn McFrederick/UCR) Ask a random person to picture a bee, and they’ll likely conjure up the familiar black-and-yellow striped creature buzzing from flower to flower collecting pollen to bring back to the […]
Expand / Sampling germs out of Leonardo da Vinci’s Portrait of a Man in Red Chalk (1512). (charge: Guadalupe Piñar et al..) Microbiomes are {} scientific anger, in art conservation, even in which studying the parasitic species that contrasts on works of art can bring about new tactics to slow the deterioration of aging that […]