Warming tropical soils could cause a 9 % increase in atmospheric CO2 this Century.
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Bats can find motionless insects on leaves in the dark. This was thought to be impossible, because the acoustic camouflage provided by the leaves should confuse their echolocation system. Inga Geipel and colleagues discovered how they overcome this problem.
Kristina Anderson-Teixeira receives the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) for her work on the effects of climate change on the worlds’ forests.
Fever may be less effective at repelling infections in cold-blooded creatures
Why did some bee species become social, while the majority have remained solitary? On Barro Colorado Island, a bee that adopts both strategies interchangeably, may unlock the evolutionary origins of sociality in insects
What do playing the banjo and recording katydids have in common? We join Sharon Martinson on Barro Colorado Island to find out.