All Stories by Amanda Heidt
- Animals
Bees flying near cars are dying by the millions, a roadkill study suggests
Scientists in Utah put sticky traps on car bumpers to tally how many bees get hit on a typical trip. The broader toll is immense, they estimate.
- Agriculture
Can scientists make fruits and veggies resilient to climate change?
Combining traditional plant breeding with new genomics tools is allowing scientists to grow plants that are better adapted to a warming climate.
- Archaeology
An ancient, massive urban complex has been found in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Found by airborne laser scans, this settlement and others throughout Mesoamerica and the Amazon are shifting how archaeologists think about urbanism.
- Life
Crabs left the sea not once, but several times, in their evolution
A new study is the most comprehensive analysis yet of the evolution of “true crabs.”
- Ecosystems
‘Crossings’ explores the science of road ecology
Ben Goldfarb talks about his new book, which looks at the science that’s helping to prevent animals from becoming roadkill.
- Health & Medicine
Scientists grow humanized kidneys in pig embryos
The work represents an important advance in the methods needed to grow humanized kidneys, hearts, and pancreases in animals.
Scientists studying bee roadkill were able to identify bees belonging to more than a dozen different genera caught in sticky paper traps put on car bumpers, as seen in this composite image.
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To protect our fruits and veggies from climate change, scientists are developing new methods for cultivating plants.
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At several sites in Ecuador’s Upano Valley, such as this one, called Kunguints, laser scans revealed the remains of buildings arranged around low squares and distributed along widely dug streets.
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Crabs, such as this one from the Cook Islands, have colonized nearly every type of habitat on Earth, popping up everywhere from deep-sea hydrothermal vents to steamy mountainside jungles.
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Wildlife crossings, like this bridge in Israel, offer animals safe passage across busy highways.
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Scientists introduced human stem cells into pig embryos (one shown) engineered to lack a kidney. The stem cells then differentiated and grew into a new organ made mostly from human cells.
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