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An ecosystem refers to all living and nonliving features of a particular physical location. This includes living organisms as well as non living things, like weather, that interact with one another.
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MAR 18, 2015Plants & Animals
Francisco Delgado Vargas, from the Autonomous University of Sinaloa (UAS), researches the use of the plant Typha dominge ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimMAR 17, 2015Earth & The Environment
A controversial canal that would connect the Pacific and Atlantic oceans across Nicaragua has environmental scientists c ...Written By: Will HectorMAR 16, 2015Plants & Animals
Fall was in the air that September, and the grizzly bears I was attempting to photograph in the Beartooth Mountains were ...Written By: Greg CruikshankMAR 12, 2015Health & Medicine
Electrical engineer Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh calls the stinking mixture puddled in jars inside his laboratory "fecal inocu ...Written By: Robert WoodardMAR 10, 2015Health & Medicine
The trillions of microbes that inhabit the human body, collectively called the microbiome, are estimated to weigh two to ...Written By: Will HectorMAR 02, 2015Microbiology
Scientists have captured the first detailed microscopy images of ultra-small bacteria that are believed to be about as s ...Written By: Judy O'RourkeFEB 25, 2015Earth & The Environment
Over the past few decades, rainforests have come to be rock stars, of a sort, in the scientific community. Extensively s ...Written By: Jennifer EllisFEB 23, 2015Microbiology
The appearance of infectious diseases in new places and new hosts, such as West Nile virus and Ebola, is a predictable r ...Written By: Judy O'RourkeFEB 12, 2015Microbiology
New Yorkers are a hardy group. They exist in a small bubble, crowded cheek by jowl with each other and yet they still th ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimDEC 25, 2014Plants & Animals
Around the world, reindeer numbers are dwindling and scientists fear the species could be in danger. While tales of flyi ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimNOV 06, 2014Plants & Animals
It was a sad day recently at the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya. Suni, a northern white rhinoceros, was found dead in hi ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimOCT 15, 2014Plants & Animals
They don't care what you call them and aren't fussy about what they eat. There are hundreds of millions of them and they ...Written By: Peter MicheliSEP 25, 2014Earth & The Environment
There have been five "mass extinctions" on Earth. These are periods when extremely large numbers of species go extinct. ...Written By: Peter MicheliSEP 09, 2014Plants & Animals
As more of the natural environment is lost to development, some species suffer, but others thrive even as biodiversity d ...Written By: Peter MicheliAUG 06, 2014Genetics & Genomics
In a paper entitled, Concerning RNA-Guided Gene Drives for the Alteration of Wild Populations, recently published in eLi ...Written By: Peter MicheliJUL 09, 2014Cell & Molecular Biology
A study released in June analyzing the U.S. bioscience industry growth over the last eleven years, through the recent re ...MAY 22, 2014Plants & Animals
The biodiversity of planet Earth is the total variability of life forms. An estimated 1.5 million extant species are bel ...MAY 15, 2014Technology
characters," Ballengée says. "I wanted to somehow recall that."
Reference: Brandon Ballengée, Stanley K. Sess ...Written By: Robert WoodardMAY 08, 2014Videos
The study of microorganisms began with Anton van Leeuwenhoek's discovery of microorganisms in 1675, using a microscope o ...Written By: Robert WoodardMAR 28, 2014Earth & The Environment
If you have a problem with too much garlic mustard, you may think you are sitting in a New York delicatessen. That may a ...MAR 19, 2014Earth & The Environment
It's been estimated that somewhere between 20-40% of the Earth's land area is grassland, and 10% of the human population ...MAR 11, 2014Microbiology
As you sniffle through this years' cold and flu season, probably the last thing you want to hear is that an active giant ...MAR 03, 2014Microbiology
Zebra mussels and quagga mussels are two of the most obnoxious and damaging imports to the waterways of the United State ...FEB 18, 2014Genetics & Genomics
Grasshoppers may be a nuisance to your garden, but their voracious appetites and large numbers can cause more significan ...
MAR 18, 2015
Plants & Animals
Francisco Delgado Vargas, from the Autonomous University of Sinaloa (UAS), researches the use of the plant Typha dominge
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
MAR 17, 2015
Earth & The Environment
A controversial canal that would connect the Pacific and Atlantic oceans across Nicaragua has environmental scientists c
...
Written By:
Will Hector
MAR 16, 2015
Plants & Animals
Fall was in the air that September, and the grizzly bears I was attempting to photograph in the Beartooth Mountains were
...
Written By:
Greg Cruikshank
MAR 12, 2015
Health & Medicine
Electrical engineer Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh calls the stinking mixture puddled in jars inside his laboratory "fecal inocu
...
Written By:
Robert Woodard
MAR 10, 2015
Health & Medicine
The trillions of microbes that inhabit the human body, collectively called the microbiome, are estimated to weigh two to
...
Written By:
Will Hector
MAR 02, 2015
Microbiology
Scientists have captured the first detailed microscopy images of ultra-small bacteria that are believed to be about as s
...
Written By:
Judy O'Rourke
FEB 25, 2015
Earth & The Environment
Over the past few decades, rainforests have come to be rock stars, of a sort, in the scientific community. Extensively s
...
Written By:
Jennifer Ellis
FEB 23, 2015
Microbiology
The appearance of infectious diseases in new places and new hosts, such as West Nile virus and Ebola, is a predictable r
...
Written By:
Judy O'Rourke
FEB 12, 2015
Microbiology
New Yorkers are a hardy group. They exist in a small bubble, crowded cheek by jowl with each other and yet they still th
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
DEC 25, 2014
Plants & Animals
Around the world, reindeer numbers are dwindling and scientists fear the species could be in danger. While tales of flyi
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
NOV 06, 2014
Plants & Animals
It was a sad day recently at the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya. Suni, a northern white rhinoceros, was found dead in hi
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
OCT 15, 2014
Plants & Animals
They don't care what you call them and aren't fussy about what they eat. There are hundreds of millions of them and they
...
Written By:
Peter Micheli
SEP 25, 2014
Earth & The Environment
There have been five "mass extinctions" on Earth. These are periods when extremely large numbers of species go extinct.
...
Written By:
Peter Micheli
SEP 09, 2014
Plants & Animals
As more of the natural environment is lost to development, some species suffer, but others thrive even as biodiversity d
...
Written By:
Peter Micheli
AUG 06, 2014
Genetics & Genomics
In a paper entitled, Concerning RNA-Guided Gene Drives for the Alteration of Wild Populations, recently published in eLi
...
Written By:
Peter Micheli
JUL 09, 2014
Cell & Molecular Biology
A study released in June analyzing the U.S. bioscience industry growth over the last eleven years, through the recent re
...
MAY 22, 2014
Plants & Animals
The biodiversity of planet Earth is the total variability of life forms. An estimated 1.5 million extant species are bel
...
MAY 15, 2014
Technology
characters," Ballengée says. "I wanted to somehow recall that."
Reference: Brandon Ballengée, Stanley K. Sess ...
Reference: Brandon Ballengée, Stanley K. Sess ...
Written By:
Robert Woodard
MAY 08, 2014
Videos
The study of microorganisms began with Anton van Leeuwenhoek's discovery of microorganisms in 1675, using a microscope o
...
Written By:
Robert Woodard
MAR 28, 2014
Earth & The Environment
If you have a problem with too much garlic mustard, you may think you are sitting in a New York delicatessen. That may a
...
MAR 19, 2014
Earth & The Environment
It's been estimated that somewhere between 20-40% of the Earth's land area is grassland, and 10% of the human population
...
MAR 11, 2014
Microbiology
As you sniffle through this years' cold and flu season, probably the last thing you want to hear is that an active giant
...
MAR 03, 2014
Microbiology
Zebra mussels and quagga mussels are two of the most obnoxious and damaging imports to the waterways of the United State
...
FEB 18, 2014
Genetics & Genomics
Grasshoppers may be a nuisance to your garden, but their voracious appetites and large numbers can cause more significan
...