Two teams with United States participation are angling to build the next-generation telescope, which will peer at the very edges of the universe, into galaxies that were created immediately after the Big Bang. And as a citizen of a country that’s learning how to tighten its belt, I’m going to suggest they get together [...]
Buying locally is romantic. It feels good to support local economies, and reducing the carbon footprint of our food shopping habits is a noble goal. But now, new research is adding a wrinkle. David Coley from the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom is lead author on a new study showing that, on average, lower carbon [...]
Ten potentially new species, most of them frogs, have been reported living in a mountainous area near Colombia’s border with Panama, a remote diversity hotspot the discoverers are now calling a “Noah’s Ark.” Herpetologists from Conservation International in Colombia and ornithologists from the Ecotrópico Foundation led the discovery expedition into the Tacarcuna area of the Darien, with [...]
I silenced my Inner Rational Scientist here, and went for the cute factor. How could I resist? There actually is some science. It appears killer whale calves born to older mothers may be in better … um, flippers.
