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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Biology, Ecology, Endangered Species, Environment, Evolution, Video on 01 30th, 2012 | 1 Comment

Snakes on a Glade

Florida has been wrestling with its python problem for years. Thanks to the tropical temps in south Florida the Everglades National Park has become a dumping ground for unwanted reptiles, particularly the non-native Burmese python. Wildlife officials have been battling the snakes for about twenty years....

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Anthropology, Bioethics, Biology, Genetics, SciArt, Scientainment, Video on 01 26th, 2012 | No Comments

Project Runway: Spider Edition

Golden orbweaver spiders from Madagascar secrete the only spider silk that is gold in color, not white. And now a five-year project to create a cape is finished and on display at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. This is the first spider silk textile made since the late 19th Century.Nicholas...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Adaptation and Extinction, Animals, Biochemistry, Biology, Evolution, Featured Articles, Marine Science, SciLebs, Video on 01 13th, 2012 | No Comments

Strong Mussels Land Student in Intel Science Finals

Samantha Garvey wants to be a marine biologist and the science-focused 17 year old is now one of 61 finalists from Long Island in the Intel Science & Engineering Fair for her pioneering work with mussels. But the real story of this scientist-in-training is that she is able to excel in the classroom...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Discoveries, Evolution, New Species, Video on 01 12th, 2012 | No Comments

Tiniest Vertebrate Hops into the Limelight

Every few years biologists struggling to understand the evolutionary constraints placed on the largest and smallest of animals happen upon — usually by accident– a new contender. But that little creature then gets replaced by the next littlest critter. The competition goes on and biologists...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Discoveries, Endangered Species, Featured Articles, Plants, Video on 01 5th, 2012 | No Comments

Parasitic Fly Could Explain Bee Disappearance

In 2006 bees began disappearing. Entomologists have never been exactly able to pinpoint the cause of syndrome, which they now call colony collapse disorder. It occurs when the worker bees abandon the hive and the whole system falls apart. No one knows why the bees leave. Some have suggested they get...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Adaptation and Extinction, Animals, Climate Change, Discoveries, Endangered Species, Featured Articles, Marine Science, Video on 01 4th, 2012 | No Comments

Sharks Begin Climate Adaptation Strategy

Recently scientists in Australia discovered that two species of sharks are interbreeding. The common black-tip shark and the Australian black-tip shark have started producing hybrid sharks. Marine biologists in Queensland say they’ve found 57 sharks so far. The common black-tip shark is found...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Adaptation and Extinction, Animals, Biology, Citizen science, Climate Change, Video on 12 29th, 2011 | No Comments

Christmas Count Turns Birders into Citizen Scientists

If it’s December it’s time to count the birds. For 112 years the National Audubon Society has been documenting the avian world with its annual Christmas Bird Count. The oldest citizen science (and longest running) project now utilizes the bird-spotting expertise of over 60,000 volunteers...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Adaptation and Extinction, Animals, Atmospheric science, Biology, Climate, Climate Change, Endangered Species, Environment, Marine Science, Oceanography, Physics and Chemistry, Video on 12 1st, 2011 | No Comments

Arctic Region Warms into New Climate State

In 2006, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration began monitoring the Arctic region, creating an annual report card to mark rapid change occurring there. Five years in and the news isn’t good. The 2011 Arctic Report Card shows that the entire region is changing dramatically. Ice, both...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Anthropology, Dinosaurs, Discoveries, Marine Science, Video on 11 22nd, 2011 | No Comments

Largest Whale Fossile Bed Unearthed in Chile

For seven million years at least 80 ancient whale skeletons have been preserved in the high desert of Chile. Now a road project threatens the ancient burial ground. But developers of the new highway project have given scientists another month to remove and study as much of the area as they can.Whale...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Biology, Discoveries, Marine Science, New Species, Video on 11 14th, 2011 | No Comments

Dead Sea Teems with Tiny Life

It turns out the Dead Sea isn’t so dead after all. Microscopic life is thriving in the super salty environment, according to new findings by a German and Israeli team of scientists. They found new species of life in freshwater fissures in the seafloor. Fresh, bubbling water containing the ingredients...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Biology, Consumer Safety, Food and Nutrition, Health and Medicine, Physics and Chemistry, Physiology, Scientainment, Video on 10 11th, 2011 | No Comments

Ig Nobel Prizes Take a Lighter Look at Science

Pee pressure, beer bottle-humping beetles and a wasabi-flavored fire alarm were among the top prizes awarded at Harvard University’s 21st Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony, a more laid back version of the Nobel Prize ceremony. Nobel Prize laureates present the Ig Nobels to scientists and philosophers...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Backyard Science, Biology, Citizen science, Consumer Safety, Diseases, Health and Medicine, Video on 09 28th, 2011 | No Comments

Snail Invasion Poses Health Risks

It may be the fastest invasion of a slow-moving creature but people in Miami-Dade County are taking care not to mess with the new snail in town. The east African land snail is making a home in south Florida and causing all sorts of problems. They reproduce at an exponential rate and grow fast. They...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Video on 09 13th, 2011 | No Comments

Lost Penguin Loses Signal

A three-year-old Emperor penguin nicknamed Happy Feet washed onto a New Zealand beach in June after taking a wrong turn and heading away from his home in Antarctica. After a public rehabilitation, the zoo caring for the bird attached a tracking device to him and released him back into the wild on September...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Backyard Science, Biology, Marine Science, Scientainment, SciLebs, Video on 08 31st, 2011 | No Comments

Nature’s Deadliest Animal Wrangler

It’s not your average Top 10 list. In fact there are a lot more killer creatures on adventurer Steve Backshall’s World’s 60 Deadliest Animals list. And he is traveling the world in search of the creative ways critters kill each other. The Nat Geo Wild channel airs the show, which follows...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Backyard Science, Biology, Citizen science, Discoveries, Diseases, Endangered Species, Environment, Marine Science, Math, New Species, Video on 08 25th, 2011 | No Comments

Millions of Species Yet to be Discovered

According to a new study it could take 1,200 years, 300,000 researchers and $364 billion to identify and catalog all the species on Earth. New research in the online journal PLoS Biology, a publication of the Public Library of Science uses a new way of calculating just how many plants and animals inhabit...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Adaptation and Extinction, Animals, Climate Change, Endangered Species, Environment, Evolution, Genetics, Plants, Video on 08 22nd, 2011 | No Comments

Climate Change Pushes Species Up and North

A meta-study in the journal Science says – changing global temperatures are pushing species towards the poles and higher altitudes. A meta study is a study that rounds up all the other related studies (in this case 54) and analyzes them for trends or patterns that emerge. After looking at the...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biochemistry, Discoveries, Diseases, Environment, Health and Medicine, New Species, Physics and Chemistry, Plants, Video on 08 18th, 2011 | No Comments

Yale Undergrads Find Plastic-Eating Fungus

The growing garbage problem may have a new solution–fungus that eats plastic. For years mounting mounds of plastic have been choking landfills and polluting the ocean. Now an annual undergraduate trip to the rain forest may have found a solution to the plastic problem. Unleashing creativity in...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Biology, Economics, Evolution, Marine Science, Video on 07 28th, 2011 | No Comments

Dolphins Develop a New Sense

We all know that dolphins are smart. And we know they have more senses than people, adding echolocation to the senses of sight, sound, smell, taste and touch. Now scientists have tested and confirmed a seventh sense in at least one species of dolphins. The Guiana dolphins, which live in the muddy coastal...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Discoveries, Endangered Species, Video on 07 26th, 2011 | No Comments

Endangered Species Found in Multiple Conservation Efforts

After an 87-year absence the Borneo rainbow toad has been discovered or rather rediscovered. A group of 126 researchers have scoured the rainforests and mountains of 21 countries on 5 continents in 2010 in search of lost amphibian species. After three months of night-long expeditions, one of Dr. Indraneil...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Consumer Safety, Health and Medicine, Marine Science, Oceanography, Video on 07 14th, 2011 | No Comments

Tiny Shark Packs Big Bite

Few people have ever heard of the cookiecutter shark. They are prevalent in the deep, tropical ocean but they are not very large predators. In fact, the fish measures just a couple of feet long. But don’t be fooled by its size. This is a saw-toothed fish that bites dolphins, whales, nuclear submarine...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Biology, Discoveries, Marine Science, New Species, Video on 07 12th, 2011 | No Comments

Science Prospectors Find 300 New Species

Biologists from the California Academy of Sciences and its counterpart in the Philippines have found over 300 new species of animal life, both on land and in the sea. Ranging from a starfish that only eats sunken driftwood to an inflatable shark, scientists say that over 90% of the world species have...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Biochemistry, Biology, Diseases, Genetics, Health and Medicine, Physiology, Plants, Space, Video on 07 11th, 2011 | No Comments

Last Shuttle Crammed with Science Experiments

When the final mission of the U.S. space shuttle program blasted off flawlessly on Friday, over one million onlookers gathered in Florida for the launch. Tens of millions more watched on television. But what they couldn’t see amid the liftoff fire and smoke was all the science that was en route...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Biology, Discoveries, Video on 07 5th, 2011 | No Comments

Crows Hold Grudges, So Watch Out

Crows have a remarkable way of remembering people — especially ones they think have wronged them. And now new research shows they pass on this scolding behavior to other birds so the grudge can carry on, sometimes for years. University of Washington bird biologist John Marzluff discovered about...

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