Category: Life Sciences
How Plants Talk When We’re Not Around
One genuine surprise in recent decades has been the discovery that plants have nervous systems like animals.
Ecuador’s Highest Court Grants Rights to Wild Animals
Nature rights apply to individual animals. And, one would assume, to be consistent, to individual plants, insects, water, and (what the hell) germs too.
Microbe Performs Rocket Science, Vital for Life on Earth
This little machine, which also knows how to recycle and reuse all its parts in a sustainable “green” way, keeps the nitrogen in balance for the whole planet.
To Regulate Foraging, Harvester Ants Use a (Designed) Feedback Control Algorithm
These elements of harvester ant behavior present a severe challenge for the evolutionary paradigm.
Redwoods, Grasshoppers: New Designs in Well-Studied Species
If redwoods are a byword for great stature, grasshoppers represent the opposite. And what insect could be more common or familiar?