One of the world’s worst agricultural pests corrupts the alarm signals of plants, disarming those that otherwise might prepare for an assault.
In an extreme version of the clotting process, the bugs suicidally erupt to save their nest.
A new federal report blasts the Bureau of Land Management for its wild horse policies-- putting the new Interior Secretary squarely between science and politics.
How the archaic study of brain shape and head reading — the origin of terms like “highbrow” and “lowbrow,” “well rounded,” and “shrink” — shaped the modern obsession with the mind. One reason phrenology attracted so many followers was that it seemed to provide the toolbox for the American dream.
Migration and a global shipping network have flattened biodiversity worldwide.
It’s time to give fungi the respect they’re due.