Groups of spiders could be used as an environmentally-friendly way to protect crops against agricultural pests. That's according to new research which suggests that web-building groups of spiders can eat a devastating pest moth of commercially important crops like tomato and potato worldwide.
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Slow Motion: USU Geophysicist Investigates Tectonic Plate Boundary Earthquake Behavior
Renaissance polymath Leonard da Vinci demonstrated that frictional forces slow down the motion of surfaces in contact.
New Study Settles Long-Standing Debate: Does Agricultural Erosion Create a Carbon Sink or Source
Over the last decade, researchers have sounded the alarm on soil erosion being the biggest threat to global food security.
Engineered Wood Grows Stronger While Trapping Carbon Dioxide
Rice University scientists have figured out a way to engineer wood to trap carbon dioxide through a potentially scalable, energy-efficient process that also makes the material stronger for use in construction.
Before global warming, was the Earth cooling down or heating up?
A review article addresses a conflict between models and evidence, known as the Holocene global temperature conundrum.
Microbes play a key role in unleashing ‘forever chemicals’ from recycled-waste fertilizer
'Forever chemicals' are everywhere -- water, soil, crops, animals, the blood of 97% of Americans -- researchers are trying to figure out how they got there. Their recent findings suggest that the microbes that help break down biodegradable materials and other waste are likely complicit in the release of the...
How the fastest fish hunts its prey
Scientists have designed a novel electronic tag package incorporating high-tech sensors and a video camera in order to document a detailed view of exactly how sailfish behave and hunt once they are on their own and out of view of the surface.
Simple-to-Use eDNA Test Will Help Track Marine Species
Can a single bottle of ocean water contain enough scraps of genetic material for researchers to identify virtually all of the fish, plankton, molluscs, marine mammals and other organisms from that location?
Eastern Pacific Coral Reefs Adapting to Warmer Waters, Study Finds
Some corals in the eastern Pacific are adapting to a warmer world by hosting more heat-tolerant algae, according to new research that offers hope for the world’s embattled reefs.
Amazon Mammals Threatened by Climate Change
Two jaguars, caught with a camera trap survey, walk through the Brazilian Amazon rainforest.rom jaguars and ocelots to anteaters and capybara, most land-based mammals living in the Brazilian Amazon are threatened by climate change and the projected savannization of the region.