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Since the last ice age, a butterfly species called the Reverdin’s blue (Plebejus argyrognomon, known as miyamashijimi in Japanese), has survived in Japan’s grasslands maintained by human agricultural activities. But as the country’s population ages and leaves the countryside, letting the seminatural grasslands change to forests, the butterfly is now endangered. For the past five […]

“It was probably the best decision Ive made thus far in my life.”

Cincinnati's Will Claus earned an NCAA zone cut on the 3-meter with a score of 331.7 against Indiana, ranking in the top 10 in school history.

"We thought, 'Why don't we test products that have same properties?'”

During the research, the team found presence of glucosides that prevent the conversion of starch into sugar, explaining the plant’s anti-diabetic value. | Education News

Ruegsegger, a fourth-year anthropology student, collected botanical species from the Oak Knoll site, a mixed landscape of oak savanna, tallgrass prairie, wetlands, dry uplands and Cato Springs Creek.

An improvement to acetolysis, a common method for pollen processing and identification, makes it feasible with even just a few pollen grains sampled from individual, live bees.

Scientists from the Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering (SCELSE) and the National University of Singapore (NUS) have uncovere....

Wolfgang Stein, professor of neurophysiology at Illinois State University, is one of seven international researchers to receive the Neurobiology and Changing Ecosystems Kavli Exploration Awards.

We must recognize the fact that among the very top private universities in the United States, UChicago remains the most undercapitalized, owing in large part to the fateful collapse of its undergraduate enrollments in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s.