Spring is a busy time for the eastern fence lizards, Sceloporus undulatus. Across the eastern U.S., sexually mature males – with bright blue badges on the sides of their white bellies – court females. Eager to mate, territorial males flaunt their blue …
It Takes a Village
Peter Piot got his first dose of global public-health work in Zaire more than 35 years ago, at the bedside of the world’s earliest Ebola patients. The scene was gruesome: patients oozed thick, dark blood from every opening and died atop the rusty sprin…
Algae Get Help to Go to Extremes
Genes picked up from prokaryotes likely helped an algal species adapt to its extreme environment – acidic hot springs worldwide – according to new research published today (March 7) in Science…"It’s part of a new wave of research providing eviden…