Over 800 trillion microbeads enter US wastewater daily Melissa Breyer (@MelissaBreyer) Science / Ocean Conservation September 17, 2015 © 5Gyres/Oregon State University “We’re facing a plastic crisis and don’t even …
Matt t Simon Science 09.18.15 This Critter Is So Cute That I Need to Take a Nap Now This bouncing jerboa is so cute that I just had four, maybe …
Naturally occurring ‘GM’ butterflies have wasp genes Melissa Breyer (@MelissaBreyer) Science / Natural Sciences September 21, 2015 CC BY 2.0 Sid Mosdell/Flickr Mother Nature, not Monsanto, appears to be …
VW Could Fool the EPA, But It Couldn’t Trick Chemistry Click to Open Overlay Gallery Oliver Morris/Getty Images For decades, automakers have been caught between building an engine that squeezes a …
In north-west Pakistan, big cats are more feared than global terrorists ‘Man-eating leopards’ have been reported around Abbottabad – Osama bin Laden’s last redoubt – as wildlife officials struggle to …
Encholirium fragae Forzza sp. nov. (Figs. l, 2) Phytotaxa 227(1): 013-024. 2015 It shares with E. ercctiflorum, E. horridum and E. ascendens inflorescences with double heterothetic racemes and tubular corollas …
Learning is not a spectator sport Students learn 6 times more with CMU’s Simon Initiative approach than with MOOCs Carnegie Mellon University Free – or very inexpensive – online courses …
Canistrum-aurantiacum Ecology and Distribution of Canistrum aurantiacum by Jose Aves de Siqueira Filho in Bromelia 4(1): March 1997 a presentation by BI
New Zealand Grants a River the Rights of Personhood Stephen Messenger (@smessenger) Business / Environmental Policy September 6, 2012 Wikimedia Commons/CC BY 2.0 From the dawn of history, and in cultures …
Which countries have the most trees? By looking at ‘tree wealth’ around the world, researchers point to trees’ greater value. By: Mary Jo DiLonardo Sunbeams pour through the trees in …