Tag: biology

At first glance, the grit crust could seem like a routine example of what researchers call a biological soil crust, ...

On a spring day in 1978, a fisherman caught a tiger shark in the lagoon surrounding Enewetak Atoll, part of ...

That has created a problem. Around 2010, soon after meeting this big, new predator that could outcompete and eat them, ...

According to assembly theory, before Darwinian evolution can proceed, something has to select for multiple copies of high-AI objects from ...

This story originally appeared on Atlas Obscura and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.At the third meeting of the ...

When it came to the substantial number that were unknown, the team conducted one more study, using the best understood ...

Secondly, the warmer water gets, the less dense it becomes. At the surface, you end up with a band of ...

At the start of his third year of graduate school, Kazi Albab Hussain became a father. As a new dad ...

A dense rainforest or other verdant terrestrial vegetation may be what first comes to mind at the mention of photosynthesis. ...

Steps away from the public restrooms in Yosemite Village, a buzzy stop in Yosemite National Park’s iconic valley, sits a ...