Marine Biology Sea Cucumbers Save Corals February 27, 2024 The "Roombas of the Sea" help create a clean habitat for coral reefs and their customers. CONTINUE READING
Biomimetics To Solve Problems, Look to Nature July 27, 2023 A wealth of engineering solutions is all around us if we but observe and learn. CONTINUE READING
Botany Illustra Media Showcases the Wood Wide Web March 28, 2023 The ways that plants communicate through underground fungal networks is illustrated in a dazzling new short film. CONTINUE READING
Politics and Ethics A Manufactured New Sin: Speciesism February 1, 2023 A new thought crime takes direct aim at Genesis and human exceptionalism. Policies to punish this crime could end civilization as we know it. CONTINUE READING
Origin of Life Adventuring for Fake Science March 9, 2022 Researchers can go to extreme lengths to gather data for evolutionary studies, but that doesn't make it all useless. CONTINUE READING
Geology Desert Varnish Goes Biological July 6, 2021 What was thought to be a geological phenomenon turns out to be the work of photosynthetic bacteria. CONTINUE READING
Cell Biology Microbes Travel the Globe February 23, 2021 The tiniest of life forms are able to traverse continental distances on wings of the wind. CONTINUE READING
Marine Biology Dramatic Climate Change Occurred Before Cities October 21, 2020 Fossils show remaining bones of aquatic mammals poking out of the desert sands of Egypt. CONTINUE READING
Politics and Ethics Downside of Green Energy Unplanned September 5, 2020 Windmills and solar farms come with their own environmental baggage, but who is planning for it? Nobody. CONTINUE READING
Politics and Ethics South Sudan: A Lost Eden Recovering June 11, 2020 The evil that men do affects wildlife, too. But when men stop doing evil, sometimes the animals come back. CONTINUE READING
Politics and Ethics Another Big Science Fail Over Pollution June 5, 2020 Is plastic polluting the world's oceans? Yes, but not nearly as much as hundreds of studies had claimed. Measure, don't assume! CONTINUE READING
Media Climate Hysteria Goes Far Beyond the Science December 11, 2019 The behavior of scientists, the media, and individuals who follow them like groupies tells a lot about the nature of science. CONTINUE READING
Fossils Unusual Fossils Call for Unusual Explanations May 15, 2019 Some recent fossil finds require creative storytelling, but the science is the data –not the story. CONTINUE READING
Fossils Humans Can Selectively Wipe Out Certain Animals July 9, 2018 The human impact on animals is well known today and is becoming apparent in history, too. Implications for ancient history are considered. CONTINUE READING
Mammals Beavers Clean the Soil May 12, 2018 Without beaver dams, loss of nutrients from soil would increase, and pollutants from upstream erosion would afflict waterways. CONTINUE READING