nature
- Alok Jha: Six Legs Good
- They developed architecture and built farms millions of years before we did. They work together so seamlessly that colonies are known as 'superorganisms'. And they could hold the secret to working out how our brains evolved.
- 2009-03-17 to animals, ants, architecture, bestof, nature by soobrosa
- Six legs good
- They developed architecture and built farms millions of years before we did. They work together so seamlessly that colonies are known as 'superorganisms'. And they could hold the secret to working out how our brains evolved. Alok Jha investigates the ex
- 2009-03-13 to animals, ants, architecture, nature by bagoly
- CAN YOU SEE ME? | ANIMAL CAMOUFLAGE: Leaf mimics
- Nature is fascinating, and some of Nature’s best work—or evolution rather—is illustrated by a group of animals that have evolved adapted to mimic leaves. Leaf mimics employ a heightened form of camouflage to evade detection from predators or prey. These a
- 2008-11-14 to animals, nature by bagoly
- Our Good Earth
- The future rests on the soil beneath our feet.
- 2008-08-27 to agriculture, bestof, earth, food, future, nature, soil by bagoly
- Evan Ratliff: Why Does This Prominent Amazon Researcher Face 14 Years in Prison for Biopiracy?
- When he ran afoul of Brazil's own paranoia over the theft of natural resources, important science lost out to bureaucracy, xenophobia, and cynicism. But Marc van Roosmalen is a polarizing figure here.
- 2008-06-09 to biology, biopiracy, brazil, nature, science, story by soobrosa
- Why flowers have lost their scent
- Pollution is stifling the fragrance of plants and preventing bees from pollinating them – endangering one of the most essential cycles of nature
- 2008-04-29 to bestof, environment, flowers, nature by bagoly
- Helmut Merschmann: Isabella Rossellini's 'Green Porno' Explores Insect Sex
- The short film "Green Porno" was made for mobile phones, shows the actress dressed up as various insects doing what comes naturally.
- 2008-02-21 to bestof, mobile, movie, nature, sex by soobrosa
- Our oceans are turning into plastic...are we?
- A vast swath of the Pacific, twice the size of Texas, is full of a plastic stew that is entering the food chain. Scientists say these toxins are causing obesity, infertility...and worse.
- 2008-02-19 to health, life, nature, toxin by bagoly
- Parasite morphs ant into ripe red berry
- A newly discovered parasite so dramatically transforms its host, an ant, that the ant comes to resemble a juicy red berry, ripe for picking, according to a report accepted for publication in The American Naturalist. This is the first example of fruit mimi
- 2008-01-18 to nature, science by bagoly
- Madeleine Bunting: We need an attentiveness to nature to understand our own humanity
- A new genre of writing is putting centre stage the interconnectedness between human beings and the wild
- 2007-08-23 to book, ecology, human, nature by soobrosa
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