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Absurd Creatures

October 13, 2015

Author: Matt Simon. Matt Simon Science Absurd Creatures: The Caterpillar That Freaks Out if You Yell at It In the rainforests of Peru there lurks a caterpillar that doesn’t appreciate …

Cacti and the illegal plant trade

October 13, 2015

Cacti are endangered for a surprising reason Margaret Badore (@mbadore) Science / Conservation CC BY 1.0 Bill Williams Despite their ability to thrive in conditions many living things find unbearable, …

Tree Aid

October 13, 2015

Charity aims to train 32,000 families to grow trees, fight hunger Sami Grover (@samigrover) Science / Climate Change © Tree Aid photo Earlier today I asked readers to help Republic …

Exxon’s Climate Concealment

October 11, 2015

The Opinion Pages | Op-Ed Contributor Exxon’s Climate Concealment By NAOMI ORESKESOCT. 9, 2015 The Exxon Mobil Refinery in Torrance, Calif. Credit Jamie Rector/Bloomberg CAMBRIDGE, MASS. — MILLIONS of Americans …

This is bike rush hour in Copenhagen

October 11, 2015

This is bike rush hour in Copenhagen (how it should be everywhere) Michael Graham Richard (@Michael_GR) Transportation / Bikes October 8, 2015 Screen capture Vimeo Jim Salde has filmed a …

Survival tactic!

October 11, 2015

ScienceShot Plant seeds look, smell like poop—fooling dung beetles into planting them By Hanae Armitage “Fecal mimicry” is not a phrase you hear too often. But for the South African …

Bali By Drone 4K

October 9, 2015

Bali By Drone [embedplusvideo height=”395″ width=”650″ editlink=”http://bit.ly/1jffMp9″ standard=”http://www.youtube.com/v/uugknN2ucJ0?fs=1&vq=hd720″ vars=”ytid=uugknN2ucJ0&width=650&height=395&start=&stop=&rs=w&hd=1&autoplay=0&react=1&chapters=&notes=” id=”ep3689″ /]

Tillandsia chalcatzingensis spec. nov.

October 9, 2015

Tillandsia chalcatzingensis Gonzalez-Rocha, Cerros, Lopez-Ferr. & Espejo, spec. nov. Phytotaxa 227(2): 182-188. 2015 Tillandsia chalcatzingensis is closely related to T. superinsignis Matuda from which it differs by having nanowly triangular …

The Pineapple Saga

October 9, 2015

The Pineapple Saga a new presentation divided in three parts to be released as follows: The Story Of Ananas – 9OCT2015 The Pineapple – 09OCT2015 Most Ananas Are Cultivars – 15OCT2015

Mass extinctions are more complicated

October 9, 2015

Palaeontology Layers of meaning  Mass extinctions are more complicated than they might at first appear Oct 3rd 2015  Knowledge trapped in stone THE dinosaurs, as every schoolchild knows, died out …