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Chimpanzee

In the wild, chimpanzees face any number of dire threats, ranging from poachers to predators to deforestation. That’s why scientists, investigating an outbreak of respiratory disease in a community of wild chimpanzees in Uganda’s..


Continue reading 29 December 2017   7 jaar oud
Illumination of a book ('Paradise Lost,' by John Milton) with the nanobionic light-emitting plants (two 3.5-week-old watercress plants). The book and the light-emitting watercress plants were placed in front of a reflective paper to increase the influence from the light emitting plants to the book pages.

Imagine that instead of switching on a lamp when it gets dark, you could read by the light of a glowing plant on your desk. Illumination from nanobionic plants might one day replace some electrical lighting...


Continue reading 26 December 2017   7 jaar oud
Restanten van een nederzetting uit de IJzertijd te Mez-Notariou op het eiland Ouessant, voor de westkust van Bretagne

An intensification of land use during the Iron Age and Early Roman period (600 BC – AD 100) in Brittany (France) led to a significant increase in the number of plant species. This demonstrates that, contrary to what one might..


Continue reading 25 December 2017   7 jaar oud
loggerhead seaturtle, onechte karetschildpad

Birch Aquarium teamed up with the UC San Diego Library’s Digital Media Lab to 3-D print a brace for its loggerhead sea turtle. It is believed to be the first 3-D-printed brace for a sea turtle’s shell...


Continue reading 22 December 2017   7 jaar oud
Orchidee, Orchid

Large-scale commercial trade of wild orchids is a pressing, but little-recognised conservation problem, according to researchers...


Continue reading 19 December 2017   7 jaar oud
Panda

A new study from North Carolina State University, the Smithsonian and Duke University finds that bamboo lemurs, giant pandas and red pandas share 48 gut microbes in common – despite the fact that they are separated by millions of..


Continue reading 15 December 2017   7 jaar oud
A pod of narwhals

As sea ice melts, new findings add to concerns about the effects of ocean noise and increased human activity on deep-diving Arctic whales...


Continue reading 12 December 2017   7 jaar oud
Berk in Bennekom in 4 seizoenen 2017

With the use of the GrowApp the seasonal change of a birch tree in Bennekom, the Netherlands, was captured by making a time-lapse video. Based on the individual photos, the change of the tree’s greenness over time was determined...


Continue reading 10 December 2017   7 jaar oud
pigeon, duif

New research shows that pigeons can discriminate the abstract concepts of space and time - and seem to use a different region of the brain than humans and primates to do so. The finding underscores that animals beyond humans and..


Continue reading 08 December 2017   7 jaar oud
trees, winter

The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), WWF, and BirdLife International today launched the Trillion Trees programme, a 25-year initiative to help implement and scale global forest commitments and spur greater ambitions towards..


Continue reading 05 December 2017   7 jaar oud

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