WEIRD NATURE
Not just a pretty face: sloths could be superbug secret weapons. Depositphotos – By Bronwyn Thompson 2023 May 01 – Ever since French naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, first described the sloth in 1749, the planet’s slowest moving mammal has had its work …
An artist’s reconstruction of the newly discovered rhynchosaur, Beesiiwo cooowuse, named in the language of the First Nations people indigenous to the area in which it was found. Gabriel Ugueto – By Paul McClure 2023 Apr 27 – Researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison …
Researchers identified this fossil as a chile pepper due to its unique ‘hat’. The discovery has caused scientists to rethink the plant’s evolutionary timeline. Rocío Deanna/University of Colorado Boulder – By Paul McClure 2023 Apr 23 – Fossilized plants can provide much information about …
Study suggests antimicrobial used to promote livestock growth breeds bacteria more resistant to our natural defenses. A strain of E. coli more likely to evade our immune system’s first line of defense emerged as a result of using colistin as a growth promoter …
A female P. regius, another of the keen-sighted North American jumping spiders, which only grows to a maximum 0.87 in (22 mm) in size. Depositphotos View gallery – 3 images – By Bronwyn Thompson 2023 Apr 20 – Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the …
Image of a C. elegans worm genetically engineered to show fluorescence – the green dots are neurons that have responded to cannabinoids. Stacy Levichev/University of Oregon (CC BY-SA) – By Paul McClure 2023 Apr 20 – Researchers got tiny worms high on cannabis to …
Many species of butterflyfish eat coral, but then it turns out they’re more friend than foe. Depositphotos View gallery – 6 images By Bronwyn Thompson 2023 Apr 13 – In a surprising twist on ‘What doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger’, scientists have discovered …
New Mexico’s ancient water systems nurtured its rural farmlands through climate change. But after last year’s wildfires, there’s little time left to save them. Mayordomos Carlos Arellano and Jimmy Sánchez walk through a recently cleared acequia in Holman, New Mexico, where government funding …
A sample of the fulgurite (fossilized lightning) in which scientists have now discovered a new type of phosphorus material. Matthew Pasek/University of South Florida – By Michael Irving 2023 Apr 12 – In what sounds like a superhero’s origin story, scientists have discovered a …
A diagram illustrating the proposed story of how three supermassive black holes ejected each other from their galaxy – one in one direction and two in the opposite direction. NASA, NAOJ, and P. van Dokkum – By Michael Irving 2023 Apr 10 – Astronomers …
