In The News: School of Life Sciences
Parrots don’t just hang out for fun. To move along narrow branches, a parrot can hang from a branch with its beak, swing its body sideways and grab hold farther along with its feet. The newly described gait, dubbed beakiation, expands the birds’ locomotive repertoire and underscores how versatile their beaks are, researchers report January 31 in Royal Society Open Science.
A new paper documents how the trees were able to regenerate using energy reserves stored for many decades. Lead author Drew Peltier explains.
Who’s in the mood for some good news on the climate front?
The Nevada state reptile faces multiple threats, mostly man-made. Concerned scientists are racing to find a solution.
Three years after a fire tore through Big Basin Redwoods State Park, once-blackened trees are showing new green growth.
More than three years after a wildfire devastated Big Basin Redwoods State Park in the Santa Cruz Mountains, the massive redwood trees in California’s oldest state park continue to recover with surprising speed. But some wildlife species, particularly salmon and steelhead trout in the park’s streams, and some types of birds, are still struggling and could take many years to bounce back.
The new gallery contains a world of wildlife wonders showcasing the diverse ecosystems that blanket our planet and how daily life is intricately connected to biomes.
The new gallery contains a world of wildlife wonders showcasing the diverse ecosystems that blanket our planet and how daily life is intricately connected to biomes.
Scientists may have found a way to disable harmful bacteria from being able to sicken millions of people.
New University of Nevada, Las Vegas, research is turning the page in our understanding of harmful bacteria and how they turn on certain genes, causing disease in our bodies.
The legendary Alexander Fleming, who famously discovered penicillin, once said "never to neglect an extraordinary appearance or happening." And the path of science often leads to just that. New 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ research is turning the page in our understanding of harmful bacteria and how they turn on certain genes, causing disease in our bodies.
51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ is getting $5 million from the federal government as part of an effort to keep things a little bit cooler in one of the nation’s hottest cities.