Look out! Invasive crazy ants displacing fire ants in southeast
Invasive “crazy ants” are displacing fire ants in areas across the southeastern United States, according to researchers at The University of Texas at ...
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Middle American Stenamma ants have an odd life
Stenamma is a cryptic “leaf-litter” ant genus that occurs in moderately humid to wet forest habitats throughout the Holarctic region, Central ...
Biologist Maps the Family Tree of All Known Snake and Lizard Groups
A George Washington University biologist and a team of researchers have created the first large-scale evolutionary family tree for every snake and ...
Frogs, salamanders suffering under erratic rainfall
By day, insects provide the white noise of the South, but the night belongs to the amphibians. In a typical year, the Southern air hangs heavy from ...
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Attacking MRSA with metals from antibacterial clays
In the race to protect society from infectious microbes, the bugs are outrunning us. The need for new therapeutic agents is acute, given the ...
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Climate change may have little impact on tropical lizards
A new Dartmouth College study finds human-caused climate change may have little impact on many species of tropical lizards, contradicting a host of ...
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Can math models of gaming strategies be used to detect terrorism networks?
The answer is yes, according to a paper in the SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics. In a paper published in the journal last month, authors Anthony ...
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Carbon storage in Arctic tundra shows ecosystem resiliency
When UC Santa Barbara doctoral student Seeta Sistla and her adviser, environmental studies professor Josh Schimel, went north not long ago to study ...
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World’s smallest droplets
Physicists may have created the smallest drops of liquid ever made in the lab. That possibility has been raised by the results of a recent experiment ...
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New method proposed for detecting gravitational waves from ends of universe
A new window into the nature of the universe may be possible with a device proposed by scientists at the University of Nevada, Reno and Stanford ...
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