How to make friends with wild gorilas Grauer’s gorillas are the largest primates in the world and are capable of awesome displays of power and brute strength. But a harmonious …
British Scientists Get Permission to Genetically Modify Human Embryos for Research The scientists plan to use genetic engineering techniques to study infertility A human embryo at the four-cell stage. …
Why we should learn to love all insects – not just the ones that work for us Paul Manning – DPhil Student in Zoology, University of Oxford Insects, which include …
Estimating the global conservation status of more than 15,000 Amazonian tree species Abstract Estimates of extinction risk for Amazonian plant and animal species are rare and not often incorporated into …
The World’s Megacities Are Making Dengue Deadlier Outbreaks are more common now thanks to bigger cities and more places for mosquitoes to live An Indian Municipal Corporation sanitation worker fumigates …
Neoregelia carolinae forma tricolor originated in cultivation and is now the cultivar ‘Caroline Tricolor’ Neoregelia carolinae (Beer) L. B. Smith, Contr. Gray Herb. 124: 9. 1939. Neoregelia carolinae (Beer) L. …
Myanmar’s Unemployed Elephants By JONAH M. KESSEL Myanmar’s newly democratic government has banned the export of raw timber, to help fight deforestation. But that has idled thousands of the elephants …
How do you build a mirror for one of the world’s biggest telescopes? Optical diagram of the Giant Magellan Telescope. Giant Magellan Telescope – GMTO Corporation, CC BY-ND …
New Weapon to Fight Zika: The Mosquito By ANDREW POLLACKJAN. 30, 2016 Separating male and female mosquito larvae at Oxitec, a biotech company that is releasing genetically modified male mosquitoes …
Explainer: the ins and outs of peer review January 25, 2016 2.16pm EST Author Peter C. Doherty Laureate Professor, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity If you are …