Is there something universal about the sounds we make that allows vocal learners—like songbirds—to figure out how we’re feeling?
Hear Them Roar: How Humans and Chickadees Understand Each Other
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Rice Device Channels Heat into Light
The ever-more-humble carbon nanotube may be just the device to make solar panels – and anything else that loses energy through heat – far more efficient.
PSU Researchers Push for Better Policies Around Toxic Chemicals
From high levels of lead found in school drinking water to industry sites releasing toxic heavy metals into the air, over 40 years of regulations in the United States have failed to protect human and environmental health from toxic chemicals.
NASA Finds an Asymmetric Tropical Storm Barry
Infrared imagery from NASA’s Aqua satellite shows that Tropical Storm Barry doesn’t look like a typical strong tropical cyclone.
Early Arrival of Spring Disrupts the Mutualism Between Plants and Pollinators
Gaku Kudo of Hokkaido University and Elisabeth J. Cooper of the Arctic University of Norway have demonstrated that early snowmelt results in the spring ephemeral Corydalis ambigua flowering ahead of the emergence of its pollinator, the bumblebee.
Impact of Wildfire on Pollination by Moths Revealed
Researchers have shown for the first time the detrimental effect of wildfires on moths and the ecological benefits they provide by transporting pollen, making interacting plant and insect communities more vulnerable to local extinctions.
