A Moment of Science
A plant's nightlife may not include dining and dancing, but it does play an important role in its flowering season.
Exactly how much are we damaging the environment when we put up new buildings and expand our cities?
New research suggests that animal populations can actually decipher the amount of plant life in that particular area.
Find out what is keeping Hawaiian residents and vacations up until the croak of dawn.
We’ve discussed before how endangered species are at risk from the increased likelihood of inbreeding, which leads to unhealthy offspring. There’s another danger to letting the numbers of animals in a given species become too low. It’s called genetic drift. Learn more on this Moment of Science.
Have you ever wondered why cannibalism isn’t more popular? Just think about it, each animal is made of a complex variety of chemical ingredients. As an animal, we can either try to assemble these ingredients haphazardly, eating other animals and plants and hoping these assorted meals will add up to exactly what we need. Or we can get all our essential nutrients in one complete package by dining on our next-door neighbor! Learn more on this Moment of Science.
You might remember seeing single-cell organisms under a microscope in biology class, and perhaps you remember them as rather boring blobs. Life got much more interesting and complex when the cells joined together to become animals or plants. Most people, biologists as well as you and I, think of cells primarily as building blocks of more complicated organisms. Learn more on this Moment of Science.
A global nuclear war--heaven forbid--would end the life of most everything on the planet. But this organism would live on.
Have you ever wondered why dogs bark? Find out on this Moment of Science.
Learn about the trashy side of DNA on this Moment of Science.
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