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Smog disrupts life in northeast China
Major smog has closed major highways, schools, and businesses across parts of northeast China this week.
October 24, 2013
Birdsong recordings harm birds
Although playing recorded song to lure a bird into view is frowned upon by birdwatchers, some people still do it. Will these new findings get them to stop?
October 23, 2013
View from space: Russian missile contrail
Two astronauts' photos of the contrail from a Russian missile launch
October 23, 2013
Fossil reveals earliest known central nervous system of an animal
Scientists traced iron deposits that occupied the space of long-gone central nervous system tissue. An outline of a 520-million-year-old central nervous system emerged.
October 23, 2013
How climate change affects microbial life below the seafloor
Sediments from the deep sea give insight into the dynamics of the deep biosphere.
October 22, 2013
View from space: Life reclaims Mount St. Helens
Two satellite images show how life has returned to Mount St. Helens since the volcanic eruption of 1980.
October 21, 2013
How endangered porpoises hear in one of the world’s busiest rivers
New research on how the highly endangered Yangtze finless porpoise navigates and communicates in th high-traffic waters near China's Three Gorges Dam.
October 21, 2013
Typhoon Francisco expected to strike Japan later this week
Typhoon Francisco is expected to weaken but will likely bring an increase in surf, rip currents, heavy rain, and gusty winds to Japan by the end of the week.
October 21, 2013
Foraging acrobatics of humpback whales
Acoustic and camera tags attached to the whales revealed a repertoire of feeding acrobatics. The video in this post gives you a whale's-eye view of what happens.
October 21, 2013
Horn-shaped leaves help to amplify sounds for bats
Bats roosting in the curled up leaves of tropical plants are able to better hear their companions, a new study suggests.
October 20, 2013
