Apple to nix apps that tip off drunk drivers
(AP) -- After pressure from four U.S. senators, Apple Inc. has said it will start rejecting iPhone applications that tip drivers off about police checkpoints for drunken driving.
View ArticleBiocontrol of sweetpotato weevils
The warm humid conditions of the tropics make it tough for farmers to keep their crops pest free. For sweetpotato growers in Micronesia, the sweetpotato weevil seems to defy efforts to control its...
View ArticleOcean probes to help refine climate change forecasting
A USC researcher has opened a new window to understanding how the ocean impacts climate change.
View ArticleEarth's largest environmental catastrophe 250 million years ago studied
The eruption of giant masses of magma in Siberia 250 million years ago led to the Permo-Triassic mass extinction when more than 90 % of all species became extinct. An international team including...
View ArticleHawk found with nail in head recovering in Calif.
(AP) -- A red-tailed hawk that rescuers said was shot in the head with a nail gun was recovering Sunday at a Northern California wildlife center.
View ArticleMassive volcanoes, meteorite impacts delivered one-two death punch to...
(PhysOrg.com) -- A cosmic one-two punch of colossal volcanic eruptions and meteorite strikes likely caused the mass-extinction event at the end of the Cretaceous period that is famous for killing the...
View ArticleExploring water in the deep Earth
(PhysOrg.com) -- Research published today in Nature Geoscience provides new insight into the water cycle of the deep Earth, volcanic activity in the Pacific and the potential catastrophic effects when...
View ArticleNever before seen Russian snow leopards caught on camera
New WWF camera traps have captured the images of two rare snow leopards in Russia. The photographs are the first ever taken of snow leopards in Russia's Altai mountains. WWF camera traps last month...
View ArticleCould Siberian volcanism have caused the Earth's largest extinction event?
Around 250 million years ago, at the end of the Permian geologic period, there was a mass extinction so severe that it remains the most traumatic known species die-off in Earth's history. Although the...
View ArticleMore than 7,500-year-old fish traps found in Russia
A team of international archeologists, led by the Spanish National Research Council, has documented a series of more than 7,500-year-old fish seines and traps near Moscow. The equipment found, among...
View ArticleScientists snare 'superprawn' off New Zealand
Scientists have captured a "supergiant" crustacean in waters seven kilometres (4.5 miles) deep off New Zealand, measuring 10 times the normal size of related species.
View ArticleBrazil files suits against Twitter on police traps
The Brazilian government has filed a lawsuit against Twitter and its users in a bid to stop publication of messages alerting drivers to police speed traps and drunk-driving checkpoints.
View ArticleBuilding a better trap
(PhysOrg.com) -- Fieldwork in Perus Andes Mountains is demanding, especially when it involves hauling heavy equipment to remote sites that are accessible only by traversing the regions rugged terrain.
View ArticleFirst camera trap photos of rare leopard in China
The first-known camera trap photos of an Amur leopard in China have recently been taken by protected area staff in Hunchun Amur Tiger National Nature Reserve in Jilin Province according to the Wildlife...
View ArticleFirst photos ever of jaguars in Colombian oil palm plantation taken with...
Panthera's camera traps recently produced the first photographic evidence of wild jaguars with cubs in an oil palm plantation in Colombia, including photos of two male jaguars and a female jaguar with...
View ArticlePitcher plant uses power of the rain to trap prey (w/ Video)
During heavy rain, the lid of Nepenthes gracilis pitchers acts like a springboard, catapulting insects that seek shelter on its underside directly into the fluid-filled pitcher, new research has found....
View ArticleResearchers find some plants get their nitrogen from fungi that kill insects
(Phys.org) -- We've all grown up with stories of plants that capture, kill and eat insects; the Venus fly trap the most notable example. Now it appears some plants get their nitrogen from insects via...
View ArticleKudzu vine key to kudzu bug's survival
U.S. Forest Service entomologist Jim Hanula may be the only person in the South who actually wants to keep kudzu alive.
View ArticleNot all animal traps are equal
(Phys.org) -- Large differences in the performance of spring traps used to kill mice, rats and moles, indicate considerable scope for improving the humaneness of such traps, and suggest that incentives...
View ArticleResearchers study how to avoid charge traps in plastic electronics
(Phys.org) -- Plastic electronics hold the promise of cheap, mass-produced devices. But plastic semiconductors have an important flaw: the electronic current is influenced by charge traps in the...
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