Do you eat fruits and vegetables? What about nuts? If so, you can thank an insect pollinator, usually a honey bee.
Honey Bee Helpers: It Takes a Village to Conserve a Colony
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Summer of Seals
Analyzing seal teeth for environmental reconstruction might not be everyone’s cup of tea, but for Jenn Wilkins it’s a dream come true.
Putting a Tempest into a Teapot: Can California Better Use Winter Storms to Refill its Aquifers?
The general long-term forecast for California as climate change intensifies: more frequent droughts, intermittently interrupted by years when big storms bring rain more quickly than the water infrastructure can handle.
Powerful Pollen
Antibiotics are powerful medication that are used to fight infections, but the ongoing and well publicized issues with resistance has made the search for new medicines critical to human health.
Crustacean’s Life in Low-Oxygen Water Suggests There’s More Than One Way to Survive Hypoxia
A tidepool crustacean’s ability to survive oxygen deprivation though it lacks a key set of genes raises the possibility that animals might have more ways of dealing with hypoxic environments than had been thought.
Bats’ Brains Sync When They Socialize
The phrase “we’re on the same wavelength” may be more than just a friendly saying: A new study by University of California, Berkeley, researchers shows that bats’ brain activity is literally in sync when bats engage in social behaviors like grooming, fighting or sniffing each other.
