Often when moving to a new town, I’ll check out a lot of apartments before I find the right one. Other times I see a decent place and I just stop looking, even if there were more on my list.
That’s how ants do it, too.
Elva Robinson, a biologist at the University of Bristol in England, [...]
A friendly reminder: Earth Day is on Wednesday, so be the best steward you can be! I’m working on a post or two with Earth Day specifically in mind, but I won’t claim this is one of them. A lot of my posts have to do with a year-round fascination with Earth and the living [...]
What does Antarctica have to do with a mission to search for Earth-like planets around other stars?
Maybe not much, usually. But yesterday, NASA’s Kepler mission sent back its first images of the patch of the Milky Way where it will stare for the next three-plus years, hunting for planets in the habitable zones around other [...]
I admire Paul Ehrlich for his sustained warnings about human overpopulation and the environmental degradation we cause.
But sometimes, I wish he’d lighten up.
For example. Five days after I published this blog post in early February, about the discovery of a dozen new species in Columbia, Eurekalert came out with a press release that read like [...]
Maybe because I’ve never actually been stung by a scorpion, I think they’re pretty neat beasts. I like their curly, secret-weapon tails and their segmented bodies, and I like my memories of spotting them in my headlamp on a nighttime hike through the Grand Canyon.
And so, naturally, I was intrigued by a study in which [...]
