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0:42 Calling all nature lovers in northern Illinois! Severson Dells Nature Center wants you to participate in a community science program. Andrea Wallace Noble is an educator and naturalist with Severson Dells. She calls the program "a broad global idea" and a says its a partnership between the public and professionals to "observe the world around us." Credit Connie Kuntz Included in that "world" are bats, bluebirds, bumble bees, frogs and plants that live in Winnebago Countys forest preserve s...

From biofuels and other commodity chemicals to methane production, genomic study peers into the mysteries of a goat's gut By Sonia Fernandez Santa...

Unearth Fossil Discoveries Online With the La Brea Tar Pits Share this: Excavation is never ending at the La Brea Tar Pits. Though the museum is closed, their work uncovering fossils dating back 11,000 to 55,000 years ago to the Ice Age continues. Photo courtesy of La Brea Tar Pits & Museum     Budding paleontologists can now learn virtually about the only active Ice Age urban fossil site in the world that is located at the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles. “It is a very dynamic place,” s...

 E-Mail Michelle OMalley(link is external) has long been inspired by gut microbes. Since she began studying the herbivore digestive tract, the UC Santa Barbara chemical engineering professor has guided several students to their doctoral degrees, won early and mid-career awards (including a recognition from President Obama), attained tenure and advanced to the position of full professor. She even had three children along the way. A constant through it all: goat poop. "This has been the longest ...