The Most Beautiful Experiment. If you've ever taken a biology course within the last 60 years you've been exposed to an experiment that showed how the DNA molecule is replicated. The famous, among biologists, "Meselson-Stahl" experiment. Those of you who only vaguely remember how DNA is replicated will enjoy this video in which Matthew Meselson and Frank Stahl, reminisce about how they met and how their "most beautiful" experiment came to be.
The Social Life of Forests. May require subscription to NY Times.
Do female frogs call? Guardian frogs on the island of Borneo show sex role reversal.
How Ants' Individual Encounters Influence Colony-Wide Behavior, and Vice Versa
Scientists Stumble Upon Promising Repellent for Beetle Pest.
What you should know about bamboos.
Shattering Millet genes
A poisonous rat? How a rat gets to taste bad.
A short history of yogurt.
Fungal threads (hyphae) serve as toll roads for soil bacteria!
Are bacteria also threatened by the looming global reduction of biodiversity?
Sue Wilde recommended this article and I agree. It's fascinating and thought-provoking. The current owners of the Knepp estate, only 20 miles from London, are allowing 3500 acres to return to nature.
How Ants' Individual Encounters Influence Colony-Wide Behavior, and Vice Versa
Scientists Stumble Upon Promising Repellent for Beetle Pest.
What you should know about bamboos.
Shattering Millet genes
A poisonous rat? How a rat gets to taste bad.
A short history of yogurt.
Fungal threads (hyphae) serve as toll roads for soil bacteria!
Are bacteria also threatened by the looming global reduction of biodiversity?
Sue Wilde recommended this article and I agree. It's fascinating and thought-provoking. The current owners of the Knepp estate, only 20 miles from London, are allowing 3500 acres to return to nature.
And this 55 min. video presentation by the owner of Knepp estate is equally informative and inspiring.
Lake Tanganyika, in Africa, is known for its diversity of fish - 240 species of cichlids, found nowhere else on Earth, evolved there in the last 10 million years. New data suggests that it happened in three short bursts of change.
The fear of becoming a meal is a powerful evolutionary force that shapes brains, behaviour and entire ecosystems
Highways England scheme to encourage species-rich grasslands could create hundreds of miles of rare habitats after decades of loss.
Here is a collection of links to The Guardian "Age of Extinction" series.
In case you missed it: Study Suggests that Tire Rubber Preservative Harms Coho Salmon. Q&A with study author.
