Event: Summer Stargazing Nights
Frosty Drew Nature Center & Observatory Events
When: Friday June 23, 2017 at 6:00 p.m
Welcome to the Frosty Drew Observatory Summer Stargazing Nights! Tonight we will open the Observatory and Sky Theatre at 6:00 offering fabulous astronomy experiences. Read about it....- By: Frosty Drew Nature Center & Observatory Events
- On: Mon, 15 May 2017 17:35:53 EDT
How eggs got their shapes
Reported by Plants & Animals News -- ScienceDaily
The evolution of the amniotic egg -- complete with membrane and shell -- was key to vertebrates leaving the oceans and colonizing the land and air but how bird eggs evolved into so many different shapes and sizes has long been a mystery. Now, an internatio...
- By: Plants & Animals News -- ScienceDaily
- On: Thu, 22 Jun 2017 14:30:53 EDT
Catalyst mimics the z-scheme of photosynthesis
Reported by Plants & Animals News -- ScienceDaily
A new study demonstrates a process with great potential for developing technologies for reducing CO2 levels....
- By: Plants & Animals News -- ScienceDaily
- On: Thu, 22 Jun 2017 14:30:47 EDT
Previously unknown pine marten diversity discovered
Reported by Plants & Animals News -- ScienceDaily
The elusive American pine marten, a little-studied member of the weasel family, might be more diverse than originally thought, according to new research....
- By: Plants & Animals News -- ScienceDaily
- On: Thu, 22 Jun 2017 14:30:40 EDT
How do genes get new jobs? Wasp venom offers new insights
Reported by Plants & Animals News -- ScienceDaily
A new study describes how four closely related species of parasitic wasps change their venoms rapidly in order to adapt to new hosts, and proposes that co-option of single copy genes may be a common but relatively understudied mechanism of evolution for ne...
- By: Plants & Animals News -- ScienceDaily
- On: Thu, 22 Jun 2017 14:30:35 EDT
First Chikungunya-infected Aedes aegypti mosquitoes found in Brazil
Reported by Plants & Animals News -- ScienceDaily
While more than 13,000 cases of Chikungunya viral disease were reported in Brazil in 2015, scientists had never before detected the virus in a captured mosquito in this country. Now, researchers have identified a mosquito -- caught in the Brazilian city of...
- By: Plants & Animals News -- ScienceDaily
- On: Thu, 22 Jun 2017 14:30:24 EDT