Featured Data Nugget: You may think that blow fly maggots are gross, but did you know they can help solve crimes? The age of a maggot helps scientists determine how long ago a body died.
Featured Data Nugget: The Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest is home to the one of the longest running bird studies ever conducted! What can we learn about migratory bird populations from this unique long-term dataset?- Featured Data Nugget: Climate change is causing waters to warm, and species will need to adapt to survive. Do salmon have the genes necessary to survive in these new conditions?
- Featured Data Nugget: Big wings allow butterflies to fly everywhere with ease. But you may wonder, why are the wings of some species so brightly colored?
- Featured Data Nugget: Scientists taking soil cores to determine whether organic matter stores important nutrients, like phosphorus, in wetland soils.
- Featured Data Nugget: What can tree rings tell us about the past climate of Australia, and whether current weather patterns are changing due to climate change?
- Featured Data Nugget: The world's coral reefs are home to a large diversity of plants and animals, and are threatened by climate change. When the water gets too warm, some corals bleach and some can survive.
- Featured Data Nugget: Today more and more people are moving from rural to urban areas. This means that cities are becoming the primary places where many people experience nature and interact with wildlife.
- Featured Data Nugget: When is a mutualism not a mutualism? Under certain environmental conditions, such as soils with high nitrogen, Rhizobia may become parasites to plants.
- Featured Data Nugget: Because herbivores are so important for how plants grow, they may determine how well an exotic plant does in its new habitat and whether it becomes invasive.
- Featured Data Nugget: Grasshopper mice feed on two different species of scorpions - one with a painful sting and one that is painless. Will the mice choose to avoid the scorpions with the painful sting?
- Featured Data Nugget: Corn is used to produce most of the biofuels that humans consume today, but it does not make a good habitat for wildlife. Can diverse prairies serve as a viable alternative?
