Tag: biology

Snorkeling with Some Wild Dolphin Friends – or Another Day in the Office for Denise Herzing

07.16.18.

For more than three decades, behavioral biologist Denise Herzing has tracked and observed a pod of wild spotted dolphins that live in the warm clear waters of the Bahamas. She’s learned an awful lot about their behaviors and their communication–or is it a language? Denise has as good a chance as anyone to find out…
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Accelerating Antarctic ice loss, fiber optic seismometers, mangrove methane: this week in science

06.15.18.

Miles is making his way back from the dolphin research trip–this is Fedor Kossakovski filling in again. Here’s a look back at this week in science, with stories you don’t want to miss. Accelerating loss of Antarctic ice A batch of papers out this week in the journal Nature give new urgency to the fight…
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Teamwork makes the dreamwork: success in Western Malaysia

05.04.18.

Ed. Note: Elizabeth Scordato is an evolutionary biologist at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, studying how environmental variation influences the evolution of bird signaling and the formation of new species. From April to June of this year, Liz is conducting field research on the Pacific swallow in Malaysia, Fiji, and Japan, and will be making…
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You can now build a 3-D bioprinter for less than $50. Here’s why that matters.

05.01.18.

3-D printing… with living tissue? No, this isn’t Westworld, this is the real world. It’s a growing research trend called bioprinting and a team of Carnegie Mellon University engineers may have just made it much easier to print using biomaterials and fluids. Using off-the-shelf parts, Dr. Adam Feinberg and team have created a bioprinting attachment…
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Climate change disrupts animal cycles, massive coral casualties, how Mars’ moons formed: this week in science

04.20.18.

Here’s a look back at this week in science, with stories you don’t want to miss. I’m reminded this week of the exquisite precision of nature and the complexity of its interrelatedness. It doesn’t take an awful lot… just a few degrees here, a small shift in a current there… to upset the applecart. Climate…
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How to catch a Pacific swallow–dispatches from the front lines of biological research.

04.18.18.

On the fourth day of my field season, I found myself on a tiny boat with three students from the Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, setting off down a remote jungle river in search of birds. The putt-putt of the outboard motor mingled with the sounds of bird songs, monkey calls, and the rustling of palm leaves…
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