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Research journeyBeing born and brought up in a remote village of Haryana, my family and neighbors had no background in pursuing…

Hello again from Serena camp! As you may have seen from our last two posts on North and Happy Zebra clan,…

Any way you want to slice it our gardens are suffering through a drought. Areas that would be called “lawn”…

On a wooded hilltop in eastern Ohio, a massive sandstone boulder bears more than a hundred ancient tracks whose origins…

Red-backed Flameback – Tissamaharama area, Mar 23, 2025 White-naped Woodpecker – Tissamaharama, Mar 20, 2025 Yellow-crowned Woodpecker – Yala NP,…

I had a mild panic attack the first time I bought a washing machine. I was twenty-eight and a housemate…

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At this point, it should be obvious that for this species to persist, its habitat needs to be maintain via…

LiCata, V. et al After years of high attrition rates in its prestigious Molecular Biology program, Fartlek University has begun…

Research published in Nature Communications on Thursday 15 January 2026, co-authored by Dr Joseph Millard of our Agroecology Research Group, provides new…

Puccinia urticata on Urtica dioicaIt’s hard to walk by banks covered in common nettle without noticing this fiery and gruesome…

The dental crown Tundra received. Image credits: Lake Superior Zoo/Instagram An unexpected glint now catches the light whenever Tundra opens…

Do you study (marine) biology at the University of Bergen? Are you interested in a 1-month funded internship in Brazil,…

This week’s plant will be familiar to anyone who has a garden with a herbaceous border. We are at a…

Researchers at Yale School of Medicine (YSM) are drawing attention to a powerful and preventable factor in cardiovascular disease. Their…

Drawing of Tuataras by Mary Edith Durham (1863-1944) for Hans Gadow’s volume Amphibia and Reptilesin the Cambridge Natural History series of…

They are beautiful flowers Fuchsia magellanica flowersFuchsias are a group of some 105 species, native mostly to South America, in the…

Researchers at the University of Granada have revealed that the Nutri-Score labeling system, commonly used in Europe to assess food…

 Yours truly in front of a life-sized model of a giant prehistoric scorpion, on exhibition at London’s Natural History Museum…

If you were the vicar of a rural parish in the early 20th century, what would you get up to?…

This week, I had to fix some equipment. It wasn’t a big fix; a lever had fallen out of alignment…

Wale, C.H., McConnell, S., van Leeuwen, S., Cowan, M.A., Spencer, P.B.S., How, R.A. and Schmitt, L.H. (2025). Disruption and irruption…

 Amos crossing a bridge on the Chuck Keiper TrailWhat a joy it was to walk, simply walk, following a singular…

A former coal-mining village on Vancouver Island is exploring an unexpected path to clean energy: using the water pooled in…

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Bird (male House Finch) flapping wings to startle insects out of the flowers of an Australian Grass Tree (Xanthorrhoea quadrangulata) Iris…

In the summers of 2016 and 2017, a small research team endured harsh conditions on the Greenland Ice Sheet to…

Pac-Man was always such a harmless soul, lost in the labyrinth of his own mind, chased by ghostly memories of…

Hello all,Long time no see ;-)On February 2025, I had the chance to climb the fabled Mount Roraima in Venezuela to explore…

In 1856, American scientist Eunice Foote made history by publishing the first academic paper demonstrating that carbon dioxide traps heat from the…

• Definition: The process of maturation and differentiation of PGC to oogonia, primary oocytes, secondary oocytes and to mature ova…

For the last three years, we have launched our autumn membership special offer by saying that ‘in a rapidly changing world, our…

This illustration shows a spacetime grid where the grid is being dragged due to rotation, but where expansion farther out…

I have been, very kindly, nominated to take part in the Sunshine Blogger Award by Kannan Raja, the author of…

Allan Trott’s (mistake-free?) knot garden at Ashburton in Aotearoa/New ZealandWhen I asked my wife what she thought of my most…

Could you give us an example where you have piloted such an approach and extended it?In the legacy products space,…

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Prunella vulgaris can be found all over the place. It has also been used to treat just about everything. What…

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Some creatures make a living by pretending to be something they’re not. (Like Halloween, every day!) In one high-flying example, zone-tailed…

You should make kombucha (чайный гриб or chayniy grib) at home to drink and for your children to drink.  It is…

Credit: franganillo/Pixabay Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly becoming central to environmental decision-making. But unless women’s voices, labor and lived realities are…

The TCD Botany-Zoology Postgraduate Symposium made its annual return this month on the 7th and 8th of March for its…

  March is a tricky month for predicting flowers. The weather prognosticators have gotten a little better over the years, but predicting more…

Currently, RIKEN is a national research institute in Japan, but it was originally founded as a private research foundation in…

Malay tapirs are glorious. These adorable animals spend their time innocently wandering around the rainforests of Southeast Asia, blissfully grazing on…

The Tropical Stream Garden transports you into a tropical rainforest with a gurgling stream. The towering palms, banyans, bananas, and…

Modern scientific publishing is often portrayed as a neutral system advancing knowledge through merit and debate, but in practice it…

 The Gonzo Daily: Sunday Okay, boys and girls, this is all going to get a bit complicated. As you may…

Today we celebrate Dydd Gŵyl Dewi, though the day of the second most famous Welsh saint is actually tomorrow. It’s…

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Incidentally, as I was doing all this deep diving on the red-bellied woodpecker tonight, I noted that All About Birds…

California Trees: A Field Guide to the Native Species Review by Brett Hall California’s native trees have always invited curiosity.…

This post provided live reentry prediction updates (newer ones at the top) from ESA’s Space Debris Office on the atmospheric…

Posted by: Craig Woolheater on February 2nd, 2023 Return of the Dodo? Scientists launch project to bring back the extinct…

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It’s been about 8 months since the Vera Rubin Observatory (VRO) saw first light. Now the telescope is scanning the…

In 1952, a Japanese ecologist named Kinji Imanishi wrote something that would take 72 years to reach most of the…

Jayyvon isn’t doing anything bizarre that needs explanation like 1332 Alexis Gabrielle Sherrington or 1715 Tyler Linoleum; I’m giving him…

A Night of Beer, Light & Discovery – Sept 17th Sept 17 PyroFarms is coming to Michi Brew Co. for…

It’s that time of year again! Here’s this year’s contact sheet of goofy jack-o-lantern pumpkin designs:(click to enlarge)It seems like…

Economic aspects of applied anatomy: Economic Aspects of Applied Anatomy There Are Occasions When Herbarium Botanists Find That It Is…

Hmm, well it’s not just climate science they dislike, they, or more exactly, their fundamentalist/evangelical component, which seem to have…

My amazing mother who is now 80, came to celebrate my 50th birthday. I should already be dead. I am…

This winter has been the perfect testament to the climate change our state (and the whole planet) is experiencing. In…

Photo: PexelsOne tracks heartbeats through algorithms, while the other catches them with a steady hand. Artificial intelligence (AI) may master…

When Roger Met Patty by William Munns (2014), Createspace Independent Publishing, Platform, 510 pp, paperback and Kindle. In October 1967…

The aim of my PhD is to identify which ornamental plants might become invasive in the future, possibly as a…

NASA’s Artemis II rocket has made its way back to the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB), but this time it’s not…

A vertebrate with one of the longest necks When paleontologists uncovered the fossils of Dinocephalosaurus orientalis in the Middle Triassic…

Wild Daffodils, Narcissus pseudonarcissus, in West Woods, near Marlborough, Wiltshire. © Karen Andrews It’s a pleasure to see Wild Daffodils.…

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“Do plants feel?” This is one of many questions that Indian scientist Jagadish Chandra Bose posed. Bose, today’s featured Google…

Radioheliographs and wideband solar radio spectrographs are essential components of the Chinese Meridian Project (CMP)‐II (C. Wang et al., 2024)…

Welcome to Zygoma. This is my personal blog and the views expressed here are not those of my employer (the…

Stopped off at Orton on the way up to see Crepis praemorsa at its only UK site, quite a few…

The Dog Control Act is under scrutiny following three serious dog attacks last week. Organisations such as Auckland Council and the SPCA separately called…

As well exemplified by a significant fraction of anole research, islands can act as natural laboratories of evolution. With limited…

This lovely garden just outside the small coastal town of Landevennec in northern Brittany  is absolutely full of surprises at…

Chris Skinner poster of ‘Dark City’I’m finally starting a newsletter!! Neurocritical Thoughts will function as a supplementary “trial” blog, with…

Co-author Irina Rotenko Recently, we captured an interesting moment when a large wild boar tried to attack an adult wolf…

Preparing to leave for a new campsite with all of our gear and supplies Exploring remote and little known parts…

 A revision of the psammophilic genus Liobuthus Birula, 1898 (Scorpiones: Buthidae), with a description of four new species from Central…

Deep-sea sharks include some of the longest-lived vertebrates known. The record holder is the Greenland shark, with a recently estimated…

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Posted on October 28, 2025 Hurricane Melissa is poised to be a historic and devastating hurricane for Jamaica. The latest…

 Jambo Jambo! My name is Anne Ju, and I am the new research assistant based out of Serena camp! I…

Prosthechea brassavolae is an orchid (Orchidaceae) in the subfamily Epidendroideae. This species is part of a multispecies group known…

More than seven millennia ago, Stone Age mourners in what is now Sweden buried a boy with a crown of…

It’s quite possible to see 100 species of birds in a day in any month of the year here in…

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In the sophisticated landscape of immunology, macrophages represent the frontline of innate immunity and the architects of tissue homeostasis. These…

In this edition of Who’s who in the Zoo, meet Michelle Yuen, a Zooniverse backend developer. Who: Michelle Yuen, Backend…

Pacific Coralroot, Corallorhiza mertensiana (Orchidaceae). 🌸A new orchid species for me! These were so PINK compared to other coralroots I’ve…

In what has become hardly a leap for the company, SpaceX concluded its Starlink satellite launches for February 2026 with…

Pollinator Ambassadors, a European charity co-founded by Zoology PhD student Nynke Blömer (Agroecology Group), has recently won grants for two…

A liger at Jungle Island, Miami. Lions and tigers naturally live in different habitats and so rarely meet. If they do happen…

When NASA scientists opened the sample return canister from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample mission in late 2023, they found something…