Cicadas Are So Loud, Fiber Optic Cables Can ‘Hear’ Them
One of the world’s most peculiar test beds stretches above Princeton, New Jersey. It’s a fiber optic cable strung between
Read moreOne of the world’s most peculiar test beds stretches above Princeton, New Jersey. It’s a fiber optic cable strung between
Read moreThe original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. On warm summer nights, green lacewings flutter around bright lanterns
Read moreThis story originally appeared on Atlas Obscura and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. At the third meeting of
Read moreIn 2008, a fruit fly known as the spotted-wing drosophila made its way from Southeast Asia to the continental US,
Read moreThis new research found that while moths and bees do visit some of the same plants, for instance daisies, their
Read more“If there are welfare concerns, you’ve got to intervene at the planning stages, when those facilities are being designed and
Read moreFor the current study, Tombak, then a PhD candidate at Princeton, and her team wanted to test stripe width to
Read moreProving that this way of producing pheromones works, and that they’re effective, has taken almost a decade. “We are now
Read moreA similar scenario played out in the 1990s, when a Tennessee naturalist named Lynn Faust read the confident published assertion
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