As big as a pickle and about as intimidating as one, too, the round goby pictured above doesn’t look like an aggressive…
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Featured Image Watch Out, Here Comes the Round Goby: How One Fish Changed the Danube River
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Aggregators Predicting Movie Box Office Success Using Wikipedia
It’s Friday evening and perhaps you’re planing to watch a movie, but will the new release you choose be a blockbuster or…
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Featured Image Color and Iridescence in the Stinkbug
“Beautiful” may not be the first word to describe the stinkbug, but Tectocoris diopthalamus sure are pretty. Pictured above are six specimens…
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Featured Image Home sweet home: Understanding New York City soil fungal communities in green roofs and city parks
Green roofs are growing more common in urban communities around the world. Besides the cost savings associated with these urban green spaces…
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Aggregators Greetings from Lake Socompa! A Diversity of Life in Extreme Conditions
The photo above comes to us from a remote part of the Andes, at the base of the active volcano Socompa. Lake…
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Aggregators Worth a Thousand Words: Rediscovering an “Extinct” Species
It’s not every day that you come across a living member of an extinct species. Nathan Whelan, a doctoral student at the…
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Aggregators Worth a Thousand Words: Handedness in Fish
If you look closely at the image above, you’ll see that the mouths of these cichlid fish, Perissodus microlepis, curve in opposite…
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Aggregators Observing World Malaria Day 2012: Sustain Gains, Save Lives
Today is the fifth annual World Malaria Day, commemorated every April 25 to recognize and encourage global efforts to control malaria. This…
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Aggregators PLoS ONE News and Media Roundup
This month in PLoS ONE news: Penguin populations recorded from outer space, super strength bacteria discovered in caves, and much more! Satellite…
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Aggregators Worth a Thousand Words: The Spikerbox
Pictured above is the SpikerBox, a low cost, open-source BioAmplifier developed by a team of scientist/engineers in their quest to bring neuroscience…
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Author Spotlight Halloween Highlight 2011: An Author Spotlight with David Hughes and Harry Evans
In the spirit of Halloween, we’ve asked Dr. David Hughes of Penn State University and Dr. Harry Evans of Federal University of…
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Featured Image Tracking Turtles: An author spotlight on Sara Maxwell
The beach in Mayumba National Park, located on the coast of Gabon, has one of the highest nesting densities of sea turtles…