Animals Asexual Animals Reproduce Without Mates Are you familiar with asexual animals? Asexual animals reproduce without involving sex or traditional fertilization. While this might sound strange, it’s actually quite natural—and even helps many animal species survive in otherwise poor environmental conditions. In fact, many different types of animals reproduce asexually. Here are just a few examples: Sharks While rare, some shark […]
Animals Insects Weigh as Much as People and Farm Animals Combined Israeli scientists finally find the answer to a question that has bugged ecologists for decades. More than a million species of arthropods –cold-blooded creepy-crawlies including all insects — crawl and buzz around us outdoors and indoors, aboveground and underground, in our plumbing systems, in our food and on our bodies. Like them or not, they […]
Animals No More Joy Rides? Bill would ban dogs from sticking heads out of car windows A new Florida bill would make it illegal to let a dog be in a driver’s lap or stick their head out of a window of a moving car. Additionally, Senate Bill 932, filed by state Sen. Lauren Book (D-Broward) and intended to protect […]
Blog Barney the Purple Dinosaur is Back and has a New Look Barney is back, and while Mattel has not yet officially confirmed it, we’re guessing he still loves you. Toy giant Mattel (MAT) announced Monday that Barney, the friendly (and, let’s be honest, cringe-worthy to a large group of Millennials who watched him as pre-schoolers, and to their parents) purple dinosaur is making a triumphant […]
Animals How Wild Animals Survive Freezing Temperatures While the weather outside may indeed get frightful this winter, a parka, knit hat, wool socks, insulated boots and maybe a roaring fire make things bearable for people who live in cold climates. But what about all the wildlife out there? Won’t they be freezing? Anyone who’s walked their dog when temperatures are frigid knows […]
Blog NYC Ending COVID-19 Vaccination Mandate New York City, which once had the nation’s strictest workplace vaccination rules for COVID-19, is ending one of its last such mandates, saying it will no longer require the shots for municipal employees including police officers, firefighters and teachers. The vaccine mandate, which led to the firing of hundreds of city workers who declined to […]
Animals Ancient Bird Found in Australia Ancient bird found in Australia and thought to be eagle is a vulture In a case of mistaken identity, a new study reveals that a fossilized bird long thought to be an eagle is actually a vulture. The fossil has been held at the South Australian Museum for more than 100 years, where it has […]
Blog COVID Antiviral Pill Merck says it has first antiviral pill found to be effective against COVID Molnupiravir is an experimental antiviral drug which is orally active and was developed for the treatment of influenza. It is a prodrug of the synthetic nucleoside derivative N4-hydroxycytidine, and exerts its antiviral action through introduction of copying errors during viral RNA replication. […]
Auto Worm-Like Amphibian A strange new species of worm-like amphibian which was recently discovered in Panama has been named after President Donald Trump, by a company that says it wanted to raise awareness about the problem of climate change. U.K. sustainable construction firm EnviroBuild paid $25,000 for the right to name the amphibian Dermophis donaldtrumpi at an auction […]
Blog Chushu The traditional East Asian calendars divide a year into 24 solar terms. Chǔshǔ, Shosho, Cheoseo, or Xử thử (traditional Chinese: 處暑; simplified Chinese: 处暑; pinyin: chǔshǔ; Japanese: 処暑; rōmaji: shosho; Korean: 처서; romaja: cheoseo; Vietnamese: xử thử; literally: “limit of heat”) is the 14th solar term. It begins when the Sun reaches the celestial longitude […]