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Just last week Amy Tan, the author of “The Joy Luck Club,” released a book entitled “The Backyard Bird Chronicles,” which describes her birding adventures and features a number of

No one likes a cheater, even a single-celled one. New research from Rice University shows how cooperative single-celled amoebae rely on family ties to keep cheaters from undermining the health of their colonies. The research appeared in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in May.

Gregory Nobles reviews Joan E. Strassmann's Slow Birding: The Art and Science of Enjoying the Birds in Your Own Backyard.

St. Louis is known for the Arch, the Cardinals and, of course, Ted Drewes. But there’s much more to see and do in the Gateway City. Here, students and faculty at Washington University in St. Louis share some of their favorite summertime St. Louis attractions and activities.

A University of Michigan facility up north will host a free, summertime lecture series about climate, water, and other environmental topics.

The free events come from the University of Michigan Biological Station in Pellston and will feature scientists, artists, professors and more.

Scientists are now revealing the agricultural expertise that other species have cultivated for tens of millions of years

Plants remain woefully understudied in evolutionary and sociobiological terms – their selfish quarrels and altruistic sacrifices locked up.

More Fun Than Fun: The Unlikely Stardom of the Naked Mole Rat 03/03/2021 I knew about the naked mole rat ( Heterocephalus glaber) as a little curiosity in my field of research on social insects, the curiosity being that it is the only known eusocial (truly social) mammal, comparable in many ways to eusocial ants, bees and wasps. Imagine my surprise while browsing the internet when I came across a children’s book entitled Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed by the American best-selling cre...