“At every end of the year we stage an exhibition that looks into some of the most urgent issues humankind faces at the moment,” says Pi Li, head of art …
Don’t let their fluff fool you: Your cat was built for murder. Felines, no matter how chonky, eepy, or boopable, are remarkably adaptable obligate carnivores, down to eat just about …
One of the world’s most peculiar test beds stretches above Princeton, New Jersey. It’s a fiber optic cable strung between three utility poles that then runs underground before feeding into …
According to Blom, whose group favors thinning dense stands of young trees and reducing accumulations of vegetation and woody debris from the forest floor through prescribed burns or mechanical methods, …
The preference change might have had something to do with the crabs’ nutrient needs changing as their metabolism speeds ramped up. If they’re generating higher pinch forces at higher temperatures, …
When Elder Barb Faichney flips through family photos, McClelland Lake is a recurring theme. Her family’s trapline skirts the banks of the lake north of Fort McMurray, Alta., which has …
But vampire bats represent a new threat because they feed on the blood of other animals. Their usual victims are livestock, and occasionally wild mammals and birds. Using their sharp …
This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Roman Empire fell more than 1,500 years ago, but its grip on the popular imagination …
By laying eggs in the rivers, the chum salmon might actually help native fishes by providing food for them. These frigid Arctic waters aren’t particularly productive, biologically speaking, meaning there …
Bioacoustics can’t fully replace ecology fieldwork, but can provide reams of data that would be extremely expensive to collect by merely sending scientists to remote areas for long stretches of …