Normally mosquitoes are the enemy; we are constantly thinking of ways to keep those suckers as far away from us as possible. But in the United States we’re pretty lucky when it comes to the gnat-like blood-suckers that won’t leave us alone, because most of…
A lot of incredible animals have emerged throughout the billions and billions (and billions) of years Earth has been evolving, the majority of these species inhabiting our vast oceans (remember the neon glow jellyfish?). And for a San Francisco woman Merideth Patterson, who’s labeled as…
“The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean. From it we have learned most of what we know. Recently, we have waded a little out to sea, enough to dampen our toes or, at most, wet our ankles. The water seems…
In light of the inevitable, irrecyclable mounds of waste that lie on and beneath our Earth’s surface, Rainforest Expedition and Laboratory scientists at Yale University, along with their biochemistry professor, have discovered a fungus in the Amazon Rainforest that’s diet consists of purely plastic, more specifically,…