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Reports
many more ewes. The cow sheds too are quiet. They are very well ventilated. (A cow, if kept dry, does not suffer from the cold until the air temperature falls below minus 10C, a rare event in this part of Wales.) The herd of 250 milking cows are...
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Toads on roads
Adult toads actually begin their seasonal breeding migrations in the preceding autumn, but cease moving in winter when it is cold, before restarting their migration as the weather warms. Toads are essentially nocturnal animals, and hence they do not...
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"There'll be PhDs written on the psychology and politics of this topic"
droplets from human expiration – and the content of pathogen found in them. Even if we're talking about flu and the common cold, there was hardly any research into how those actually spread through the air. We wanted to continue fundamental studies on...
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Aliens in Antarctica
invader of these terrestrial ecosystems non-native species must be already adapted to conditions of acute and chronic cold exposure, as well as a lack of water, which either remains trapped in ice during longdark winters or is lost through the low...
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Salt Survivors
in the Atacama Desert in South America is both a xerophile and psychrophile – thriving in low water availabilities and at cold temperatures. The physical chemistry of extreme environments poses a serious challenge to biochemistry. In halophiles, how on...
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Reports
visit the exhibition in London the following weekend. Christopher Bailey FRSB The National Arboretum 10 December 2015 On a cold and wet December day nine hardy souls turned out for our annual Christmas get together, this time for a walk around the...
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Buried Alive
would not be a comfortable environment for any microbes found in the samples. For this reason I spent many hours in the cold roomat the bottom of the ship preparing the incubation experiment for resuscitating the microbes in the sediment. After being in...
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Frozen assets
either spermatozoa or oocytes. The procedures were successful using spermatogonia derived from dead fishes that had been in cold storage for five years[10]. These processes have also been used to help conserve a highly endangered fish species, the...
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“Just the idea of having these species back is already having an impact”
to resurrect a woolly mammoth. Is it misleading to call them that, when you're actually using mammoth DNA to create cold-adapted elephants? Isn’t it important to distinguish these two different animals? I don't think it's important. Scientifically, what...
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“Just the idea of having these species back is already having an impact”
to resurrect a woolly mammoth. Is it misleading to call them that, when you're actually using mammoth DNA to create cold-adapted elephants? Isn’t it important to distinguish them as something new? I don't think it's important. Scientifically, what is a...
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What is 'fire melanism'?
(Greater UV protection can be needed at altitude, too.) So it is that Earth’s inkiest creatures are formed by extremes: cold, heat, punishing conditions and, in the case of a select cohort of grasshoppers and squirrels and mice and even bobcats, almost...
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Back to the future
and decode ancient environmental DNA, we can now do this. DNA can be preserved in nature for up to two million years. Cold and anoxic conditions, such as those found in permafrost, create an ideal environment for preservation. After sampling, ancient...
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Meetings with Moths: Discovering their Mystery and Extraordinary Lives
There are practical suggestions for how to do so, too; for example, in a particularly strong chapter on surviving the cold, she explores a citizen science project of her own devising to record overwintering herald moths. This is an ideal short...
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The Queen of Pain
ways you cause pain in a controlled and ethical way. There are three major categories of things that can hurt you: extreme cold and heat; mechanical, which could be crushing or pricking or slicing; and chemical, like being stung. What you try to do when...
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The Queen of Pain
ways you cause pain in a controlled and ethical way. There are three major categories of things that can hurt you: extreme cold and heat; mechanical, which could be crushing or pricking or slicing; and chemical, like being stung. What you try to do when...
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Head outdoors to look for first signs of spring
Susie Rabin, Associate Director of Communications and Public Affairs at RSB, said: “There is nothing better on a crisp, cold day in January or February than pulling on warm clothes and heading out into the fresh air. Even when the ground is hard with...
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Honorary Fellows S-Z
the most notable biological discoveries to date. Watson has held a number of prominent positions, including: chancellor of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and director of the National Centre for Human Genome Research at the National Institutes of Health....
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The Anti-Ageing Diet
research and teaching fellow at Canterbury Christ Church University. Working in the Harvey Lab, she is investigating cold response in wild type C. elegans and stress response in genetically modified worms, as well as studying lifespan in GFP-tagged...
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Interview: Basecamp Research
to protect it, and Vince and Lorenz admit that making a case for the commercial value of biodiversity can be seen as pretty ‘cold-hearted’. But, as Lorenz puts it, a cold hearted argument might be the only thing that certain leaders of certain nations...
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"No-one is looking for sequences with anywhere near the scale and depth that we do”
to protect it, and Vince and Lorenz admit that making a case for the commercial value of biodiversity can be seen as pretty ‘cold-hearted’. But, as Lorenz puts it, a cold hearted argument might be the only thing that certain leaders of certain nations...
