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What Happens When Predators Disappear
It’s Predator Week here at the blog. What’s your favorite predator, either existing or extinct?
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How the Great White Egret Spurred Bird Conservation
I was certain that the bird’s plumage had to have been faked, but all the photographer did was darken the background. Those feathers were real
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There’s a Drought—Is It Climate Change?
Despite the heat waves across the country, no one is screaming “climate change is real” because of them. Why?
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The Cambrian Explosion in Song
What does a music teacher do when he ends up teaching science?
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The Decline of the Pig-Nosed Turtle
Saving the turtle from extinction could be complicated, scientists find
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14 Fun Facts About Naked Mole Rats
Number 11: A mole rat’s incisors can be moved independently and can even work together like a pair of chopsticks
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Quirkiest Space Shuttle Science
As the space shuttle program ends, a salute to some of its most surprising studies
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What’s the Most Dangerous Country?
Iceland is pretty much the least habitable of all the places that people have inhabited. But visiting it is like hiking through a geology textbook
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The Insect That Creates Its Own Lightshow
There are about 2,000 species of fireflies, a type of beetle that lights up its abdomen with a chemical reaction to attract a mate
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Hurricane Season Starts With Arlene
The first tropical storm of 2011 is a reminder to prepare for potential disasters
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We’ve all used a fishy metaphor in the past, but use the wrong one and you can look pretty stupid
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Top Ten Kids’ Movies With a Green Theme
Loggers, hunters, developers, fishers, polluters and whalers are the evil villains in this movie genre
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Science Humor: Anti-Inspirational Posters
“I was learning for the first time about all the gremlins that stand between the researcher and The Answer.”
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Snake-Spotting Theory Brings Primate Vision into Focus
Do camouflaged predators explain why monkeys, apes and other primates evolved superior eyesight?
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Sewage Epidemiology Not Just a Pipe Dream
Scientists are beginning to analyze sewage to track the use of illegal drugs
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Which of these images from the European Space Agency’s Flickr stream would you consider hanging as art in your home?
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Should We Blame Scientists for Not Predicting Earthquakes?
A group of Italian scientists may go to trial for allegedly playing down the risk of the quake that struck the Abruzzo region of Italy in April 2009
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Why Did the Standards Bureau Need These Heads?
The NIST Museum has placed images of several items on the website of its Digital Archives and is asking the public for help
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Bubbles of Magnetism at the End of the Solar System
NASA’s Voyager spacecraft have found a foamy layer at the edge of the heliosphere
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A European Union court has ruled that France should be doing more to protect the Great Hamster of Alsace
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