For more than 400 years, an oil painting titled Air by Flemish master Jan Brueghel the Elder has been hiding a scientific ...
Bats are often cast as the unseen night-time stewards of nature, flitting through the dark to control pest insects, pollinate plants and disperse seeds. But behind their silent contributions lies a ...
A new study of wild bats reveals that an animal's immune system is shaped by more than its need to fight infections. Researchers from the University of Maryland have found that sex, age and ...
New research may enable potential solutions to metabolic disease by turning to evolution and to bats. 'Our study reports blood sugar levels that are the highest we have ever seen in nature -- what ...
In Linfa Wang’s ideal world, all humans would be just a bit more bat-like. Wang, a biochemist and zoonotic-disease expert at Duke-NUS Medical School, in Singapore, has no illusions about people ...
The relationships these winged mammals forge in captivity are strong enough to survive the jarring transition back into the wild. ByKatherine J. Wu Thursday, October 31, 2019 NOVA NextNOVA Next Meals ...
India’s monuments are locked in a quiet battle against one of their oldest occupants. Yet, ASI has no dedicated policy or ...