by nick | Feb 20, 2017 | Earth and Environment, Social Sciences
When John Hoogland first visited a prairie dog colony as a young graduate student, he said aloud to himself, ‘I could study these animals for the next 10 years.’ Forty-four years later, John is still studying prairie dogs, and he still marvels about the sometimes...
by nick | Feb 20, 2017 | Earth and Environment
For the first time, scientists have shown that salinity levels in the ocean’s surface can be a predictor of rainfall on land. Dr Raymond Schmitt and his colleagues at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts used records spanning 60 years to discover...
by nick | Feb 20, 2017 | Earth and Environment, Physical Science
The Space Physics and Aeronomy (SPA) section of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) is the primary professional organisation for over 2800 scientists, engineers and space weather forecasters across the globe who are actively engaged in trying to understand and...
by nick | Feb 18, 2017 | Earth and Environment, Social Sciences
Professor William Hunt and Ralph Hartley are both experienced archaeologists and anthropologists within the Department of Anthropology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. They have recently returned from the islands of Southeast Alaska, having set out to identify...
by nick | Feb 18, 2017 | Biology, Earth and Environment, Social Sciences
Dr Mirjam Knörnschild and her group at the Free University Berlin study the acoustic communication and social behaviour of wild bats to understand the evolutionary interplay of social and vocal complexity, the functional significance of culturally transmitted song...
by nick | Feb 15, 2017 | Biology, Earth and Environment
Located at the Boyce Thompson Institute, an independent affiliate of Cornell University, the Van Eck lab explores novel methods for major crop improvement possibilities offered by a powerful gene editing method called CRISPR/Cas9. Portrait of a bioengineer Professor...
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