Didemnum aurantium, a species whose name refers to the orange color of their colonies, which measure 1.5 cm-5 cm in length. Brazilian researchers described five new species of ascidians, co...
Shiming Wan1, Key Laboratory of Marine Geology and Environment, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao 266071, China Samuel Toucanne2, Peter D. Clift3, Debo Zhao1,...
One of the surprising discoveries to emerge from the young field of comparative genomics is that drastically different organisms--humans, sea urchins, worms, flies --are endowed with a more or ...
A new study shows habitat fragmentation has harmful effects to world ecosystems. Researchers studied fragmentation at seven sites across five continents. An extensive study of global h...
Freshwater ecosystems are vulnerable to the effects of global environmental change1. Lakes are sentinels of climate change2 and are an effective indicator of a limnological response to global c...
Tropical cyclones (TCs) induce heavy precipitation and flooding in addition to damages associated with high winds and storm surges1. Precipitation associated with TCs accounts for ~6–9% of tot...
NHM curator co-authors paper on 150-million-year-old fossilized crab larva, found in southern Germany A paper in the journal Nature Communications (March 9, 2015) co-written by NHM Crustace...
Drrtmouth scientists and their colleagues have found that periphyton -- a community of algae, bacteria and other natural material living on submerged surfaces -- is helping to transform mercury...
In 1941, Russian physicist Andrey Kolmogorov developed a theory of turbulence that has served as the basic foundation for our understanding of this important naturally occurring phenomenon. ...
The use of leaded gasoline was the dominant source of anthropogenic, i.e. manmade, lead emissions in South America from the 1960s onwards. The fuel even surpassed the thriving mining industry i...
