Scent Brings Songbirds to the Yard
Chickadees are interested in scents. That’s the news from a study out of Lehigh University, the first to document naturally hybridizing songbirds’ preference for the smell of their own species. Amber Rice, an evolutionary biologist at Lehigh, studies hybridization — when separate species come into contact and mate…
Air Pollution can Accelerate Lung Disease as Much as a Pack a Day ofCigarettes
Air pollution — especially ozone air pollution which is increasing with climate change — accelerates the progression of emphysema of the lung, according to a new study led by the University of Washington, Columbia University and the University at Buffalo. While previous studies have shown a clear connection of…
University of Alaska and Governor Dunleavy Reach Budget Agreement
Agreement Includes Multi-Year Step Down in Funding, Totaling Reductions of $70 Million Over Three Years (Anchorage, AK) – The University of Alaska and Alaska Governor Michael J. Dunleavy have reached an agreement on a multi-year compact that preserves $110 million in state funding for the university for Fiscal…
New NOAA App Brings Earth and Space Animations to your Phone
Free Tool Helps Teachers, Students Understand The Earth An enormous earthquake, the most powerful ever recorded,…
Mega-Cloud from Canadian Wildfires Will Help Model Impacts of Nuclear War
British Columbia wildfires in 2017 created a massive cloud that circled the Northern Hemisphere Photo: An…
Anatomy of a Cosmic Seagull
Colourful and wispy, this intriguing collection of objects is known as the Seagull Nebula, named for its…
50 Years Ago: One Small Step, One Giant Leap
Words such as these were emblazoned in dozens of languages on the front page of newspapers around…
Scientists Discover how the Mosquito Brain Integrates Diverse Sensory Cues to Locate a Host to Bite
For female mosquitoes, finding their next meal is all about smelling and seeing. Through behavioral experiments and…
