WEIRD NATURE
If insects feel pain, what are the ethical implications for current insect farming practices? Depositphotos – By Rich Haridy 2022 Jul 05 – A new review article penned by a trio of researchers suggests insects do have the capacity to experience pain. The article …
Every so often, our star fires off a plasma bomb in a random direction. Our best hope the next time Earth is in the crosshairs? Capacitors. ILLUSTRATION: MARK PERNICE – By Matt Ribel – To a photon, the Sun is like a crowded …
The European hedgehog is one of the species found to be contaminated with plastic in a new study. Depositphotos – By Nick Lavars 2022 Jul 04 – While researchers continue to deepen our understanding of plastic contamination throughout the environment, much of the focus …
The monkeypox virus has acquired around 50 unique mutations at a rate scientists are suggesting is unexpected. Depositphotos – By Rich Haridy 2022 Jun 26 – A new study published in Nature Medicine offers the first robust genomic analysis of the virus behind the …
Terrestrial Life Finalist. The Stoat’s Game. In the pre-dawn hours of a cold winter morning in the French Alps a stoat (Mustela erminea) emerges from its burrow. José Grandío View 12 Images – By Rich Haridy 2022 Jul 01 – Presented by the California …
Images from Lake Oroville and Lake Shasta compiled by the state show ‘a shocking drop in water levels’ compared to years past. Houseboats sit in a narrow section of water in depleted Lake Oroville in California in September 2021. The state’s second-largest reservoir …
An artist’s impression of a new biofuel made by bacteria that could have a higher energy density than jet fuel. Jenny Nuss/Berkeley Lab – By Michael Irving 2022 Jun 30 – As effective as fossil fuels may be, their impact on the planet cannot …
Some of Nepenthes pudica’s subterranean pitchers, unearthed by the researchers. Martin Dančák – By Ben Coxworth 2022 Jun 29 – Carnivorous plants are already quite fascinating, but a newly discovered one ratchets up the weirdness factor even further. It’s a type of pitcher plant, …
Largest ever specimen, a 2.7 meter-long creature known as Arthropleura, discovered by ‘fluke’ on UK beach. A section of Arthropleura’s exoskeleton was found by a ‘fluke’ on Howick beach by a Cambridge University scientist. Photograph: Neil Davies/PA– PA Media Last modified on 2021 …
Biologists used male ‘scout’ snakes to find the female Burmese which was nearly 18ft long and had 122 developing eggs. Biologists Ian Bartoszek, right, and Ian Easterling, center, with intern Kyle Findley show the 17.7 ft, 215 lb female Burmese python captured in …
