Our Ecosystems
How It Works
- Why are Parka Ruffs Made with Wolverine Fur?
- Why Don’t We Keep Resolutions?
- Genetic Diversity and Its Impact on Disease Treatment
- How Rat Fur can Help Diabetics Heal Wounds
- Fat is Good for Your Brain
- Why Wash Your Hands?
- A Unique Case of Arthropod Vision
- How does your clock tick?
- Expand Your Mind
- Going on Autopilot? Thank Your Place Cells
- Immunohistochemistry: One man’s illness is another man’s experimental verification method
- The Power of Fear: Four Ways Being Scared Affects Wildlife
- The crime-fighting field of forensic palynology
- Bioremediation - One Species’ Trash, Another’s Treasure?
- Brain Surgery… It’s Not Rocket Science!
- Changing the climate change conversation
- Why does alcohol make you dizzy?
- It’s Not Science Fiction, Chimeras Are Real
- A Peanut A Day Keeps the Allergist Away
- The Rise of Sourdough and Mason Jar Ecosystems
- Radioactive Bananas, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Greenhouse Gases, OH MY!
- Uncharted Intellectual Territory: Science Isn’t Linear
- It’s a Trap! How Looks Can Be Deceiving in Habitat Selection
- The Feelings that Linger: Good vs. Bad
- Go With Your Gut...
- Live Fast, Die Young: Why Some Animals Die After Mating
- New Culture, New Microbiome, New Problems
- If Only There Were a U.S. Census Question About Biodiversity…
- How An Invasive Plant Helped Fuel The Largest Wildfire You’ve Never Heard Of
- Human Eye Structure Makes No Sense…Or Does It?
- The Price of Pigment on Your Immune System
- Midnight Snacks Could Be the Death of You
- Lobster Fight Club
- Making a Murderer - A Matter of Biology?
- Got Lactase? Breaking Down the Enzyme
- Why Do I Shiver When It’s Cold?
- Crap you didn’t really need to know
- You Can't Observe A Lot Just By Watching
- What Do You Do When It's Too Hot to Move?
- 5 Fun Facts about Hormones
- Death stinks - literally
- Why the sea salt fad could be very bad
- Henry's Pockets: A Poem
- Biology Superpowers: X-Ray Vision
- How to Expand Your Senses by Reading a Blog Post
- What's up with bat echolocation?
- Seeing is Believing - How Can We Visualize Tiny Colorless Bacteria?
- Water balance in a man-made world
- Why Does Mopsy Eat Her Own Poop?
- Should I say sex or gender? Pt. 2
- Should I say sex or gender? Pt. 1
- How To Catch Hard-to-Catch Fish?
- Finding the Perfect Partner
- Mind over microbe
- Why Do Mothers Mother?
- GMO! The Places You'll Go!
- Really Old Fossils, Really Strong Predators, and Cool New Tech
- A Brief History of Evolutionary Thought, part III
- Saving face: transplanting our most distinctive features
- A Brief History of Evolutionary Thought, part II
- DNA - Nature’s Hard Drive
- Mitochondria: The Underrated Organelles
- Pollination 101
- You May Say I’m Biased, But I’m Not the Only One
- The Path of Least Resistance: Our Relationship with Antibiotics
- Estimating the Age of Life Long-Gone
- Know Your Limb-its
- Your Dog is a GMO Wolf
- Better Safe Than Sorry: The Pesticide Industry is Getting a Revamp
- The Bizarre Shopping List of a Determined Scientist
- Insects Get Sick Too: The Study of Insect Pathology
- Employee of the Month - Hire a Microbe to Do Your Work
- A Brief History of Evolutionary Thought - Part I
- Artificial Islands
- To B(PA) Or To Not B(PA): Regulating Endocrine Disruptors
- Fireflies of the Ocean: Lighting up the Dark with Science
- Charity cases in nature - when are animals more likely to be altruistic?
- Being selfish means staying alive
- Penguins and other strange things we study from space
- Pseudoreplication and the Art of Biological Statistics
- Why did orange prices increase?
- The Wonders of Fecal Transplants
- Calling the Shots - Discussing Vaccines
- 3D Printing for Fun and Science
- What is Phytopathology?
- Medical Mysteries Still Surrounding Zika Virus
Grad School Diaries
Earth's Organisms
- What's the world's largest virus?
- How Monkeys and Apes Fight Climate Change by Eating Fruit
- Sound the Alarm! One Unique Way Primates Avoid Being Eaten
- The Drama of Barotrauma: Blobfish, Rockfish, and More
- Why are some primate infants brightly colored?
- Technological Advancements…. Thanks to Ferrets?
- Are palm trees really trees?
- The Eastern Spotted Newt: A Wandering Teenage Identity Crisis
- Survival by Aposematism and Mimicry: The Evolution of Bright Color Patterns
- Sifak-huh?
- You are a fish
- Things That Glow Pink in the Night: Why do some animals have fluorescent coloration under ultraviolet light?
- When You Call a Fish a Frog
- Who’s Got the Biggest Genome of Them All?
- The Biology of Booze ft. Tequila
- Dying Tomatoes, Healthy Kittens, and the EMP500: Why you should care about the International Society for Microbial Ecology
- The Purebred Poodle Problem
- Let It Glow
- I’m Likin’ That Lichen
- Celebrate the Holidays with a Decorative Parasite
- Sleeping One Hemisphere at a Time
- Through the Mycologist's Hand Lens: Deceptive Decomposers
- Life Science in Outer Space!
- 5 Things You Didn’t Know About Rats
- Watermelon Snow
- Critter Candid Cam
- Three Cool Plants in Hot Places
- A parasite only a moth could love
- Telling tales of plants and their names
- The Colorful World of Primate Hair
- Where do fish go in winter?
- You Scratch My Back and I’ll Scratch Yours
- Alien Microbes: How studying hyperthermophiles can help us discover life on other planets
- Life, the universe, and everything: Dreams of being a biophysicist
- Bug Sleuth – One Entomologist’s Mission to ID a Mysterious Swarm of Wasps
- Horny and Hungry: The Dilemma of Sexual Cannibalism
- Who’s who? The elusive difference between butterflies and moths
- Tuberculosis - A Romantic Disease?
- Ode to a Few Arachnids
- Monotropa uniflora - This wildflower is pretty wild
- Eavesdropping in the Animal Kingdom: Sneaky Creatures Just Trying to Get Ahead
- Trypanosomes - A Weird Pathogen You Haven't Heard Of
- A Beautiful 9/11 Tribute, but a Fiasco for Migratory Birds
- Cats can have AIDS, too.
- Part 2: Does catching Pidgeys help you notice Pigeons? Interviews with Pokémon Go Researchers
- Biodiversity in my Backyard: Encounters with Pidgeys and Dratinis, Part 1
- Fins, Limbs, Rays, and Digits – A Beginner’s Guide to Terrestrial Living
- Fins, Limbs, Rays, and Digits – A Beginner's Guide to Terrestrial Living
- Five things that really stink about the Brown Marmorated Stink Bug
- Tricks but no Treats - An Orchid’s Guide to Making a Fool of Your Pollinator
- Tracking the lost years - where do baby sea turtles grow?
- Posing as a Bird Mama: the adventures of a researcher-turned-bird-parent
- When Boys Become Men By Dancing
- The hungry caterpillar in real life
- Mantis Shrimp Vision - Seeing in Secret Code
- When It Comes to Bird Beaks - Size Matters
- Mind over microbe
- When a Wall is just a Wall
- May the Bees Be With You: Maintaining the Sweet Balance in Life
- Nematodes: The super microscopic animal!
- How Pistol Shrimp Kill with Bubbles
- Who needs males after all?
- Opposition Research on My Garden’s Greatest Nemesis
- Watching Your Every Move
- Slimed and Consumed - The Blob is Real!
- Lion in Sheep's Clothing
- Struggling to be Heard - Competition in a Complex Soundscape
- Invasive Species and Invasion: Part 1
- When, and how, terror birds invade
- 8 Reasons Plants Are Amazing
- How our obsession with cleanliness might be hurting our health
- Stop, evaluate, and listen - serotonin surges when a female is present
- No Teeth, Long Tongue, No Problem - Adaptations for Ant-eating
- The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly - Predators, Parasitoids, and Parasites
- If you don't care for your microbiome, you might want to start
- Culturing the Least Cultured Members of Society
- Hit the Road Jack
- What Happened to Your Nose?
- Building better plants - Norman Borlaug and the Green Revolution
- Love Songs for Nobody - Birdsong in Winter
- The Evolution of Virulence
- The Unseen World – On Cheese?
- Find Me Where the Wild Things Are
- You won’t believe this simple trick to tell if your coral is healthy or not
- Cryptic Species Hide in Plain Sight
- Creature Feature - Pseudoscorpions
- World Fish Migration Day 2016!
- Walking With Giant Anteaters
- When A Sea Turtle Balanced Earth
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