Mountain chickadee chatter: Scientists are decoding the songbird’s complex calls
Mountain chickadees follow systematic grammarlike rules to share important information, stringing together syllables like words in a sentence.
May 27, 2025 • ~12 min
Billions of cicadas are emerging, from Cape Cod to north Georgia – here’s how and why we map them
Two ecologists explain why a misleading map is worse than no map at all, and how they have worked for years to track the emergences of 13-year and 17-year cicadas.
May 22, 2025 • ~9 min
Unprecedented cuts to the National Science Foundation endanger research that improves economic growth, national security and your life
The Trump administrations has canceled more than 1,400 federal grants that support engineering, biology, geology, computer science, STEM education and much more.
May 15, 2025 • ~10 min
Young bats learn to be discriminating when listening for their next meal
By listening to a frog call, adult bats can tell which prey are palatable and which are poisonous. Young bats must acquire this ability over time.
April 29, 2025 • ~8 min
Granular systems, such as sandpiles or rockslides, are all around you − new research will help scientists describe how they work
It’s extremely difficult to see how forces in a pile of sand are distributed between individual grains – a new experimental approach fixes that.
April 28, 2025 • ~8 min
Amid a tropical paradise known as ‘Lizard Island,’ researchers are cracking open evolution’s black box – scientist at work
A decade of fieldwork is revealing how one of biology’s fundamental principles works in real time.
March 25, 2025 • ~11 min
DEI initiatives removed from federal agencies that fund science, but scientific research continues
Trump’s DEI-related executive orders may affect early career scientists and researchers who study representation in science, but most research grants are unaffected.
March 10, 2025 • ~9 min
The female explorers who braved the wilderness but were overlooked by the history books
Women’s presence in ‘the wild’ has always been contested, in myth, storytelling and sexist attitudes in the media that persist to this day.
March 3, 2025 • ~8 min
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